LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Trawler (2)
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—10th January. A trawler had run ashore ten miles west of Mumbles Head, but her crew of eleven were rescued from the shore by the coastguard life-saving apparatus, with the exception of one man who was drowned....
A Rowing Boat (1)
Margate, Kent.—25th July, 1939.
A small rowing boat was drifting out with a boy in it, but before the lifeboat arrived it was found by a motor boat. The boy was exhausted and, after he had been given water and chocolate...
Fishing Cobles
NEWBIGGIN.—Seventeen of the fishingcobles which had gone to sea early in the morning of the 14th February were overtaken by a gale from S. to S.W. and a strong sea and, as their return home was attended by considerable risk, the Lifeboat...
Veteran Worker
Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., Chairman of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, sent a telegram of congratulations to Mr. J. C. Clarke, of Gwenfro, Greystone Park, Penmaenmawr, Caerns., when he celebrated his...
Category: Committee
A Polish Trawler
Arbroath, Angus - At 7 p.m. on 24th November, 1966, it was reported that a Polish trawler was aground on Bell rock. At 7.13 the life-boat, The Duke of Montrose was launched. It was one hour after low water. The life-boat came alongside the...
Helmsman; Crew
helmsman; Crew Members John Ashford, Brian Gaunter and Derek Winning were taken ashore together with a bucket stretcher (itself on trial) and an Ashford first aid pack. The best ledge from which to embark the boy was 35ft above the sea, but... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Emlyn Hughes
Emlyn Hughes, the former England football captain, while visiting his home town of Barrow-in-Furness, toppled a pile of pennies which had been growing on the bar of Roa Island Hotel. Barrow businessmen Peter Jackson and Mike McKenzie doubled... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Unflagging Support: Steve Gilbert (I) and Graham Bradshaw (R)
Unflagging support: Steve Gilbert (I) and Graham Bradshaw (r) hand a cheque for £225 to Falmouth harbour master and lifeboat honorary secretary, Captain David Banks.
Their Platinum II Roadshow had raised the money... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rnlb Foresters Future
RNLB Foresters Future, the 33ft Brede lifeboat stationed at Alderney for 12 months station evaluation trials, was named on July 19 at the RNLI Poole depot quay during Poole Open Days by Mrs Renee Roddie. After a demonstration trip, Mrs... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Royal Navy Inflatable Dinghy
Four divers snatched from explosives danger areaPrompt action by Whitby' s Tyne class lifeboat during the exploding of a war-time land mine has earned the Coxswain and crew a letter of thanks from the RNLI's chief of...