LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Ben Maye
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 7th of April, 1959, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a coaster was ashore in Calf Sound. The coxswain had received a telephone message informing him of this...
Enchantress
Tenby, Pembrokeshire.—About ten o'clock on the night of the 17th of August, 1952, the motor cruiser En- chantress struck the rocks near Stack- poole Head and became a wreck. She had a party of six aboard, and two young men managed to...
Festivity
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 5.12 on the morning of the 23rd of March, 1955, the Polruan coastguard telephoned that a man at Hope Cove had reported hear- ing a wireless message that a vessel was in distress in Mevagissey Bay. At 5.45 the life-boat...
A Boat (1)
MAN COLLAPSED At 6.46 p.m. on 9th September, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boat had overturned in moderate seas and a fresh south-westerly breeze off Bowleaze cove. At 7.5 the lifeboat Frank Spiller Locke put...
Lewes Arms
Lewis Carroll would have been surprised to see the Lewes Arms adaptation of Alice in Lewes Land. Licensee, Paul Stonehouse, alias Flopsie the White Rabbit, his wife Pauline, the Queen of Hearts, plus six members of Lewes and District... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Below: London's Police Relied on Thames Specials,
Below: London's police relied on Thames Specials, volunteers with a good knowledge of boat handling. Three steam launches were stationed at the pier, the one pictured here was named Chowkidar after an Indian night watchman.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (19)
MAY 19TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat, which had the honorary secretary, Dr. Joseph Soar, Mus.
Doc., on board as radio operator, found...
Obituaries
With deep regret we record the following deaths: August 1995 Lieutenant-Colonel Brian Clark CM GM, Former national organiser for RNLI in Ireland from 1967 to 1982.
September 1995 Tommy Dawson, coxswain of North Sunderland...
Category: Obituaries
Rhyl - Mersey Class Lil Cunningham
The band strikes up at the Rhyl naming ceremony. Photo Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cavallo
Penlee, Cornwall. At 10 p.m. on 27th August, 1965, the honorary secretary told the coxswain that a vessel was making Mounts Bay with a sick stewardess on board who required medical treatment Arrangements were made for the lifeboat Solomon...