LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
"One More for the Life-Boat Crew."
"THE lads are afloat, they have launched the boat Where the moaning storm-birds- flew; Oh, wife, from the shores they cry, ' One more, With strong, steady hand, and true I' There are lives to save On the frothing wave— ' One...
Category: Poetry
Above Just An Illusion
Above. Just an illusion. Visitors come ashore' after an exciting ride in the Ventura simulator, glad to get their feet on solid ground again.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Device for Helicopter Rescues
LIEUT.-COMMANDER JOHN SPKOVLE, R.N., Commanding Officer of the Royal Naval Air Sea Rescue Unit at Ford, in Sussex, has designed a scoop for rescu- ing people from the sea by helicop- ter.
When not in use the net of the...
Category: Articles
Presentation By Rear- Admiral Sir Edmund Irving a Vice-President of the Institution to Littlestoneon- Seu Ilb Crew of a Telescope Paid for By the Romney Marsh Ladies'
Presentation by Rear- Admiral Sir Edmund Irving, a vice-president of the Institution, to Littlestoneon- Seu ILB crew of a telescope paid for by the Romney Marsh ladies' darts league (see right). The league cup for 1977/78 was won by the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
South West Division Boys stranded rr WAS AN HOUR before high water on the afternoon of Sunday July 20, 1986, when the honorary secretary of Westonsuper- Mare lifeboat station was contacted by Swansea Coastguard to be told that two boys were...
Category: Services
Rescue from Cliff In Full Gale
AT 11.10 p.m. on the night of Saturday I4th September, 1963, Mr. R. Watt, the honorary secretary of the Mallaig life-boat station, learnt from the police that a number of people were trapped on a cliff in Loch Duich. A quarter of an hour...
Category: Services
Visit of Exeter Ladies' Life-Boat Guild to Plymouth, 1928
On board the Motor Life-boat " Robert and Marcella Beck.". - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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When it was learnt that a man had fallen over the cliffs at Sarclet Head on 2nd July, the Wick, Caithness, life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched at 10 p.m.
On reaching Sarclet Head the body of the man could be seen in...
Rescue from Steamer Aground on Rocks
At 10.17 on the morning of the llth of March, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Blyth, Northumberland, station, Captain H. Rowe, learnt from the coastguard that a vessel was in difficulties a hundred yards east of Blyth east pier...
Category: Services
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded In 1876
Jan. 6.—Voted 37. to 6 men of Ballyetherland, Co. Donegal, for saving 6 other men whose boat had been destroyed by a whale off St. John's Point, on the 3rd November.
Also 31. to 5 men for rescuing 2 others from a...
Category: Articles