LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fundraisers
North West passage Captain Patrick Roberts undertook a sponsored windsurf from Kirkcudbright, Scotland, to Ramsey on the Isle of Man.
The sail started at 1pm in light winds and sunshine, but the wind soon died...
Category: Articles
Orient
RHOSNEIGIR, ANGLESEY.— A rocket was fired from a vessel near Rhoscolyn Landmark early on the morning of the 7th March. The weather was foggy, and a heavy sea was running, the wind being S.W. The Thomas lAngham Life-boat proceeded to her...
Dashing Wave
Information reached Harwich about 4.20 P.M. on the 21st January that a vessel was on the Cork Sands, amd the steam Life-boat City of Glasgow proceeded to her.
They found she was the schooner Dashing Wave, of Fowey, bound...
Coxswain Adam Mcleod, Thurso
Coxswain Adam McLeod, of Thurso, who died in June of this year, had then been coxswain for two years, and had previously been second coxswain for thirteen years. During those fifteen years the Thurso life-boats had rescued 117 lives. When...
Category: Obituaries
Malvina
DEC. 23RD. - WELLS, NORFOLK. At 1 P.M. it was reported that three fishing boats had gone to sea at 5 A.M. Two had come back at about 11 A.M. but the third, Malvina, with a crew of three, was missing. A light N.W. wind was blowing with a...
Maria, of Ymuiden
APRIL 13TH. - ABERDEEN. News was received that a vessel was ashore on Aberdeen beach, and at 7 in the morning the No. 1 motor life-boat Emma Constance was launched. The easterly breeze was light, but there was a heavy swell with a breaking...
Eniskillen: Five-star fundraising
Five young members of Lough Erne Yacht Club went the extra mile for the RNLI last year, when they held a mini triathlon to raise lifesaving funds. By paddling, cycling and running, they raised £310 for Enniskillen Lifeboat Station. Emma...
Category: Articles
The Fundraisers
Surf And Turf A fundraising evening organised by the Campbeltown ladies lifeboat guild was a great success thanks to a fashion show of Douglas Gill's sailing and outdoor clothes and a fascinating talk from Tony Lambert, horticulturist...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy
Lytham-St. Anne's, and Blackpool, Lancashire. At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 7th of March, 1959, the police at Blackpool informed the honorary secretaries at Lytham-St. Anne's and Blackpool that a dinghy fitted with an outboard...
A Dinghy (1)
Lytham-St. Anne's, and Blackpool, Lancashire. At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 7th of March, 1959, the police at Blackpool informed the honorary secretaries at Lytham-St. Anne's and Blackpool that a dinghy fitted with an outboard...