LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
ALL SHOOK UP
Lifeboat volunteers faced an exhausting 12-hour shift when a yachtsman was stranded 50 miles off the coast in appalling weather
It was just before 8am and the start of a blustery August weekend in Castletownbere. Coxswain...
Category: Articles
Linnet and Girl Pat
Cromarty.—During the morning of the 21st December, 1937, the Helmsdale coastguard reported that they were trying to locate two small Helmsdale fishing boats, Linnet and Girl Pat, which had left Loch Fleet for Helmsdale at about 4 P.M. the...
Dragonfly
Four saved .as their boat is destroyedOn the evening of Saturday, 24 February, four sailors were completing their journey from Liverpool to Rhyl, They were approaching Rhyl when they started to " have trouble with their engine. They cut...
Naming Ceremonies
Cromer THE new 48-foot 6-inch Oakley life-boat Ruby and Arthur Reed was named at Cromer on 2ist June, 1967. She was given to the R.N.L.I, and her replacement provided for in perpetuity by Mrs. R. M. Reed, of Eastbourne, in memory of her...
Category: Inaugurations
The Mayor of Southend Congratulates Coxswain Page
(see page 187). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sea Beat (Continued from Page 270)
(continued from page 270) away and, on the first attempt to launch through the heavy surf, the boat was thrown back broadside on to the beach.
With perseverance, however, the crew managed to get through the surf and then...
Category: Articles
International Boat Show (From Page 129)
ings to the RNLI, his Christmas cards proving particularly popular (350,000 mantelpieces must have been the brighter for them last Christmas); Alan Jones, Secretary and Exhibition Organiser of National Boat Shows, who has consistently given...
Category: Articles
Sweet William Continued from Page 95
fectly and they departed full of smiles, I suspect of relief, and only charged a nominal fee.
Hatherleigh Market was close by so I asked the market RSPCA inspector to check William; he was reported in excellent...
Category: Articles
The Lifeboat Service - Past and Present
100 Years Ago The following three items were first published in the journals of February. Mav and Aueust. 1885.CLACTON-ON-SEA.—At about 6 o'clock on the morning of the 7th September, during a gale of wind from the W., a schooner was seen...
Category: Articles
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Angler in the water WHEN, on the evening of Friday November 30, 1984, Mr Michael Morris, honorary secretary of Newquay (Cornwall)lifeboat station, was informed that a sea angler had fallen off the rocks at the western end of Fistral Beach,...