LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Peter Gilson Presents Percy Garon(L) With the Launching Hammer He Has Wielded So Many Times Also There Second from Right Michael Pennell Divisional Inspector of Life
Peter Gilson presents Percy Garon(l.) with the launching hammer he has wielded so many times. Also there, second from right, Michael Pennell, divisional inspector of lifeboats, east, representing all the coast staff who, over the years, have... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Finance In 1941.: Expenditure.
Expenditure in 1941 was £279,225. That was £11,505 less than in 1940.
It was £105,150 less than in the last year of peace. The reason is that the building of new life-boats has now almost ceased. Only one new...
Category: Articles
The Shooner Admiral Hood
On the 18th No- vember, the schooner Admiral Hood ran ashore on Yarmouth beach; a line was thrown over her by the Coast-guard, by means of the rocket apparatus, and the life- boat of the Institution was hauled off to her, when the crew, 5 in...
A Launch
SEPTEMBER 28TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. A launch attached to a Coast Artillery School had got into difficulties and had capsized after striking a diving tower, but the crew were all rescued from the shore. - Rewards, £8 17s....
Welcome
After an action-packed summer on the water, autumn finds us in a reflective mood
As we sent Lifeboat to print, the sun had been baking the UK and Ireland for weeks. And we weren’t complaining! But warm weather draws crowds...
Category: Articles
The Motor Sailing Yacht Eladnid
Fast on West Barrow A RED FLARE was sighted in the vicinity of South West Swin Buoy by MV Hounslow at 0110 on Saturday, August 16, 1975.
Two minutes later a second flare was seen and reported to Warden Point Coastguard via...
A Body-Board
Off-duty lifeguard saves body-boarder When a man was caught by a rip current and swept towards some rocks at Newquay, Rod MacDonald, an off-duty Beach Rescue lifeguard, acted instinctively and bravely to save the man's lifeOff-duty Beach...
Nordstern
SALCOMBE.—It having been reported on the morning of the 13th January that a steamer was ashore near the Start, the Life-boat Lesty was launched at 9 A.M., and when about half a mile off the Prawle, met the boats of the steamer Nordstern, of...
A Rowing Boat (1)
Wicklow. At 4.10 on the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1958, the cox- swain was told that a partly submerged boat was being driven southwards three miles north-east of Wicklow. At 4.30 the life-boat /. W. Archer was...
Coxswain Patrick Flaherty
Coxswain Patrick Flaherty of Galway Bay, a holder of the bronze medal for gallantry, died on the 25th of October, 1957. He received his medal for an outstanding service in August 1938, when the crew of twelve of the steam trawler Nogi, which...
Category: Obituaries