LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
It Takes a Bit of Will Power to Give Up Your Daily Bag of Crisps at School During Lent
lakes a bit of will power to give up vour daily bag of crisps at school during Lent but Robert Crumble, aged six, decided this would be his sacrifice for his school's Lenten collection.
The money not spent on crisps... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dorothea
The Life- boat James Stevens No. 14 left her moorings at 6.45 P.M. on the 27th April to go to the assistance of the barge Dorothea of Harwich, which was in difficulties about 1| mile from the Naze. Her sails had all been blown to pieces, her...
Atlantic evolution
For years, students and teachers at Atlantic College have volunteered for a lifeboat crew ready to launch off the south Wales coast. But now the College has a new lifesaving focus. While the lifeboat station has now closed, students have...
Category: Articles
A Lobster Creel Boat
Fishing vessel skipper rescues stranded man in severe conditions The rescue of a fellow fisherman stranded on an island in Storm Force winds earned Scalloway fisherman George Williamson an RNLI Bronze medal for Gallantry. The three members...
A Single-Handed Rescue By a Skye Fisherman
THE Institution has awarded its bronze medal for gallantry to Mr. Kenneth Macleod, a fisherman of Pooltiel, Isle of Skye, for rescuing single-handed in a small rowing boat three fishermen whose boat had been wrecked. On the afternoon of the...
Category: Awards
The S.S. Claus Horn
During the evening of 3rd November, in a terrific S.W. gale, the s.s. Glaus Horn, of Lubeck, wag driven ashore on the Gaa Bank at the mouth of the river Tay. A telephone message was sent to the Coxswain of the Life-boat Maria, stating that a...
Fat-Free Cheque
Fat-free cheque The Exmouth branch received a cash boost of £2,000 from the nationwide slimming club organisation 'Slimmer'.
The organisation's central administration office is in Exmouth and when funds... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
End of An Era:
End of an era: on the retirement of Coxswain David Cox of Wells I above) til the end of August, the station was without / member of the Cox family fur the first time in three generations. David Cox was a member of the crew for 43 vears and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Olline
Eleven-hourservice in Force 11 winds saves six Coxswain David Mason could hardly have known how many 'firsts' he was going to notch up when he took Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's new Trent class to sea at 0500 on 29...
Bonnie Lad
A N.N.E.
gale sprang up suddenly early in the morning of the 9th May, while the fishing coble Bonnie Lad, of Scarborough, was at sea. The Life-boat Queensbury was, therefore, launched and proceeded to the Castle foot,...