LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Major, of Lyne
The schooner Major, of Lynn, ran aground at Holme on the morning of the 30th September. ^The Life-boat, Licensed Victualler, was at once despatched to the distressed vessel, and was, fortunately, the means of rescuing the crew, consisting of...
Helping Hand, of Lowestoft
DECEMBER 17TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
During the afternoon information was received through the coastguard that the motor fishing vessel Helping Hand, of Lowestoft, with seven on board, was in difficulties, but that a tug...
John Hartland, a Helmsman of the D Class Inshore Lifeboat at Withernsea
John Hartland, a helmsman of the D class inshore lifeboat at Withernsea, joined the lifeboat crew in 1987.
In 1991 he was awarded a Bronze medal in recognition of his high standard of seamanship and great courage, when on... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Lindi
Penlee, Cornwall. At eight o'clock on the morning of the 19th of July, 1959, the life-boat W and S was launched at the request of the port medical officer to take him to the s.s. Lindi of Antwerp, as one of her crew was very ill. There...
A Gallant Service In 1912. Silver Medal for the Second Coxswain at Fraserburgh
IT has been decided to make special awards in connexion with a service which took place at Fraserburgh in January, 1912, when the Life-boat was launched to the help of a steam trawler, Clio. The service of the Life-boat was reported to the...
Category: Services
Moneta and Other Yachts
Newhaven, Sussex. — At five in the afternoon, on the 27th of May, 1950, the coastguard telephoned a Brighton police report that a yacht was in dis- tress one mile off Saltdean. At 5.12 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was...
Captain the Hon V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Chairman of the RNLI Seen on the Occasion of His Visit to Flamborough In December
Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Chairman of the RNLI, seen on the occasion of his visit to Flamborough in December. The retiring coxswain of the Flamborough life-boat, Dick Cowling, is on the left of the picture. Albert Duke, the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Word of Farewell
WHEN one has, for fifteen years, held an office that any man must be proud and thankful to occupy, it is not easy to say good-bye. Yet the time has come for my retirement from the post of Secretary of the Institution, and I must take leave...
Category: Articles
The East German M.V. Saale (1)
Eastbourne, Newhaven, Shoreham Harbour and Selsey, Sussex - At 9.45 p.m. on 7th January, 1967, a message was received that the East German m.v.
Saale, which was on fire, required assistance.
The life-boat...
R. H. Tucker of Winconsin U.S
On the 7th September, the ship R. H.
Tucker, of Winconsin, U.S., struck on the Blackwater Bank, on the Irish coast, and the following day was totally destroyed by fire. The Cahore life-boat put off early in the morning,...