LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
After 22 Years' Service. The Old Plymouth Pulling and Sailing Life-Boat
After 22 Years' Service The Old Plymouth Pulling and Sailing Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Irish Willow, the S.S. Empire Breeze
SEPTEMBER 1ST. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. During the morning news was received by wireless from the S.S. Irish Willow that she had on board forty-seven survivors from the S.S. Empire Breeze, which had been torpedoed in mid-Atlantic on...
Passages of Life-Boats In the Gales. Port Patrick, Troon, and Moelfre
THREE new Motor Life-boats which left the building yard at Cowes for their Stations during the gales—the 40-feet Watson Life-boats for Port Patrick (Wigtownshire), Troon (Ayrshire) and Moelfre (Anglesey)—were subjected to as severe a test as...
Category: Articles
Jonas Oxley 81-Year-Old Ex-Coxswain Of
Jonas Oxley, 81-year-old ex-coxswain of Walton and Frinton lifeboat and the holder of two bronze medals and the Royal Humane Society resuscitation certificate, presents an angling trophy to Cecil Ellis for the heaviest catch at last year'... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Past Times (2)
Man overboard The dangers of the sea were tragically demonstrated on 18 March 2006 when David Clear was washed off his yacht, Past Times, off St Aldhelm's Head near Swanage, Dorset. His inexperienced crew member made a Mayday call but...
Week's Good Cause By Coxswain Derek Scott Bem
ON SUNDAY AUGUST 12 Derek Scott, BEM, coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat, made an appeal on behalf of the RNLI on BBC Radio 4. The text of the appeal, in response to which more than £11,200 has already been received, is given below:...
Category: Articles
Dinner to the Ramsgate Life-Boatmen
THE late Admiral Sir George Back, F.B.S., who had been accustomed during the latter part of his life to spend a portion of each year at Ramsgate, had at different times given a dinner to the crew of the Life-boat, to show his appreciation of...
Category: Articles
Ella
Gourdon, Kincardineshire ; Arbroath and Montrose, Angus.—At 12.20 in the morning of the 8th of July, 1948, the Gourdon coastguard reported to Gour- don life-boat station that the rowing boat Ella, with a crew of three, was expected, but had...
Breeches Buoy Rescue In Whole Gale
ON the 27th of October, 1959, the day on which the Moelfre life-boat carried out the service which earned her cox- swain the gold medal, the crew of the Islay, Hebrides, life-boat also per- formed an outstanding service in ex- ceptionally...
Category: Services
Sea Time running out
The yacht Sea Time was running out of fuel, 18 miles from shore. She had been battling gale-force conditions for 16 hours on 9 September 2008 when Llandudno’s Mersey class lifeboat Andy Pearce was launched. A lifeboat crew member went...
Category: Articles