LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Penlee
PENLEE, Friday February 14, 1986: at 0630 Penlee's 52 ft Arun class lifeboat, Mabel Alice, with Coxswain Ken Thomas at the helm, set out in a force 10 east by southerly storm and poor visibility. The Guernsey registered coaster, Roy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Some Ways of Raising Money
Someone from the Vale of Glamorgan telephoned the Cardiff office to ask for a collecting box for her daughter's birthday party. She and her husband were worried by the fashion that expects bigger and bigger presents from guests invited...
Category: Donations
Courage
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 17th of April, 1956, it was reported by the coxswain that he had heard the local fishing boat Courage calling for help on her wire-less. Ten minutes later the life-boat E.C.J.It, was...
High Seas
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
Lerwick - Scotland Division Lerwick, in the Shetland Isles, lies in the midst of one of the world's wildest and most unfriendly waters - severe gales can be expected...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter By the Editor
THE YEAR 1974 began in an atmosphere of gloom and anxiety with industry limited to a three-day week and restrictions on lighting recalling wartime blackouts.
The first month of the year was also one in which there were...
Category: Articles
Unity
Shortly after 10 A.M. on the 1st October it was reported that the fishing coble Unity, of North Shields, which had left the Tyne early in the morning for the purpose of fishing, was missing. A strong E.N.E. gale having sprung up and the sea...
A Dinghy
CABIN CRUISER FOUND AGROUND IN RIVER Broughty Ferry, Angus. At 5.16 on the afternoon of the 1st July, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a boy was adrift in a small rubber dinghy off Carnoustie. The life-boat The Robert was...
On Their Bikes!
On their bikes! A civic appeal started by Cllr George Parkinson, chairman of Wokingham district council in 1993 and pictured right, culminated in a sponsored cycle ride in April and brought the final total to £11,700 for his two-year... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Best Essay
By KATHLEEN WILLMOTT (aged 13J), of S. John Baptist Girls' School, Frome, Somerset.
What are the Qualities of the Life-boatman which make him an Example of Good Citizenship ? OUR small island home is the central jewel...
Category: Articles
Mac (1)
Rhyl, Flintshire, and Hoylake, Cheshire.— —At 3.2 in the morning of the 7th December, 1948, the Rhyl coastguard telephoned that a flare had been seen six miles north-east by north of the pier, and the motor life-boat The Gordon Warren was...