LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Elephants and beer goggles
Trying to persuade teenagers that water safety is cool isn’t easy but 20-year-old volunteer Tery Connor has it sussed …
‘I have a passion for working with young people and considerable...
Category: Articles
H.M. Trawler Caulonia (1)
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT HASTINGS MARCH 31ST. - HASTINGS , SUSSEX, AND DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 2.15 in the morning a message came from Dover asking the lifeboat to launch to the help of a vessel 3,000 yards to the south of...
Getting the Message
The equipment in everyday use aboard a lifeboat has developed to the point where it has evolved its own jargon, almost as arcane as the language of the sea itself. In this, the first of an occasional series on the technicalities of lifeboats...
Category: Articles
A Ship and an Aeroplane
OCTOBER 20TH. - KILMORE, CO. WEX-FORD. At 6.30 in the evening a small tramp steamer was seen on her way westwards inside the Coningbeg Lightship, when two German aeroplanes attacked her. One aeroplane dropped three bombs, but they all missed...
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The Duchess of Kent and Coxswain Upperton
Coxswain Upperton has twice won the silver medal. The first time was in the war of 1939 to 1945. In the war of 1914 to 1918 he was serving with the Colds,tream Guards in France.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
HYTHE, KENT.—The NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat establishment in the neighbourhood of this place, the station being styled the Hythe, Sandgate, and Folkestone Life-boat Station. The boat is manned by a joint crew of...
Category: Articles
Boy Andrew
These dramatic photographs capture an incident on Friday 13 January 1989 when the fishing vessel Boy Andrew ran into a narrow gulley at Trebister Ness on Westray in the Shetlands. Lerwick's Arun Soldian took the crew off by Y boat and...
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APRIL 19TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. An angler had fallen into the sea, but only his cap could be found. - Rewards, £4 4s..