LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Antelope
Sennen Cove, Cornwall - At 4.11 p.m.
on 10th October, 1969, it was learnt that a fishing boat needed assistance three quarters of a mile west north west of Tol Pedn. At 4.21 the lifeboat Susan Ashley was launched. It was...
Blackbird and a Canoe
Three calls A CANOE with two children aboard, overdue on passage from Colne Point to West Mersea, was reported to the deputy launching authority of West Mersea ILB station by Thames Coastguard at 2006 on Monday July 31,...
Waiting for the Lytham Lifeboat
Following the article 'Waiting for the lifeboat', which appeared in the Autumn 1996 issue of The Lifeboat, Lytham coxswain, Paul Heyes, and station honorary secretary, Frank Kilroy, discuss their individual viewpoints regarding...
Category: Articles
Helping God.
One of the gifts in answer to Coxswain Blogg'e appeal came with this letter: I am sending my pocket money to you this weeki so that you can help God to keep Bobby and John safe and all tie other children's Daddies safe. Love....
Category: Articles
Focus on . . . Salcombe
The village of Salcombe stands on the west side of the Salcombe Haven, u miles from Dartmouth, and years ago this little Devon port was noted for its trading schooners. The schooners like the clippers of Joseph Conrad's day have gone,...
Category: Articles
A Lovely Life-Size Donkey Hand Made By Robbie Macdonald
A lovely life-size donkey, hand made by Robbie MacDonald who works at the Wick Carpet Store, was raffled to raise funds for Wick lifeboat station. The donkey was put on display in the store to attract interest in the raffle. Eight-year-old... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Marine Search and Rescue Organisation
THE report of the committee set up to review the Marine Search and Rescue Organisation of the United Kingdom has now been published. Its publication was reported briefly in certain newspapers, but had little editorial...
Category: Articles
A Fishing Vessel
Faster... and further The abilities of the new generation of fast lifeboats were highlighted on the very day that this page of The Lifeboat went to press - with Eyemouth's Trent Barclaycard Crusader going to the aid of a stricken fishing...
The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra-buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
Amy II (2)
Torbay, Devon.—At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 18th of November, 1950, the Brixham coastguard reported a small yacht in a dangerous position two miles off Beesands, apparently in need of help. At 12.55 the life-boat George Shee...