LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Randy the Dolphin
Weymouth lifeboat craw were conducting a man overboard exercise on Sunday 19 May 2002 when an unexpected guest came along to land a helping flipper.
Randy the dolphin is a popular local celebrity in the area and appeared... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Haweswater
KILMORE, Co. WEXFORD.—The Lifeboat John Robert was teunched at 12.30 P.M. on the 7ih April, the coxswain having observed from his house a barque apparently ashore on Crosafarnogue Point.
The vessel, which had grounded in...
NEIL ROBSON
SKIPPER OF GENESIS ENIGMA | FORMER CREW
MEMBER AT RNLI FLAMBOROUGH
‘ So grateful they were there’
It was a rough tow back towards Bridlington Harbour and when we were about an hour away, I... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Anglers in danger HAVING BEEN informed by the Seaham Coastguard, Co. Durham, at 1632 on Sunday, November 11, 1973, that a number of anglers had been cut off on the drum head at the end of the north pier of the harbour, and that they were in...
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APRIL 15TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. During the evening a young man, a visitor to Brixham, fell from the cliffs between Landscove Camp and Berry Head and was severely injured. His cries for help were heard by another young man, walking along the...
A Sea Balliol Aircraft
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 16th of March, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the Royal Naval Air Station at Brawdy had reported that a Sea Balliol aircraft had crashed into the sea two...
A Boat (1)
St. Mary's, Scilly Isles. At 7.20 on the evening of the 31st October, 1961, a Post Office official informed the honorary secretary that a local boat being used by their linesmen, who were engaged in repairing a telephone cable between St...
Walter Digory Crowther
July 1983 Walter Digory Crowther, coxswain of Plymouth lifeboat from 1939 to 1961, after serving as second coxswain from 1930 to 1939. Walter Crowther, who first joined the crew in 1926, was awarded the bronze medal in 1942..
Category: Obituaries
James Paton,
March 1988 James Paton, coxswain of Montrose lifeboat from 1955 until his retirement in 1980. He joined the crew in 1946 and was bowman from 1946 to 1953, becoming second coxswain in 1953 until his appointment as coxswain. In 1972 he was...
Category: Obituaries
James Fitzgerald,
James Fitzgerald, coxswain of Baltimore lifeboat from 1965 to 1972. After joining the crew in 1940 he served as bowman from 1953 to 1960, and as second coxswain from 1960 to 1965 until his appointment as cox-.
Category: Obituaries