LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coxswain W. A. Rowe
William Archibald Rowe died on 30th July, 1963, after his boat had struck a rock. He swam ashore, and a member of the Coverack crew gave him first aid. He was taken to hospital by helicopter but died there.
He had been an...
Category: Obituaries
LIFEBOAT LOTTERY
SPRING 2018 RESULTS
Congratulations to Mr WD Wilson from Dorset who won our first prize of £5,000 cash.
OUR OTHER WINNERS WERE:
2ND PRIZE: £2,000
Mrs B Flippence, Essex
Category: Articles
A Dinghy
Dinghy capsize A LIFEBOATMAN, John Strachan, who is skipper of a ferry running from Largs Pier to Cumbrae, and Matthew Ramsay and Donald McMillan, skippers of fishing vessels Sea Nymph and Mhari Bhan, who were mooring their boats at Largs...
Boat Show 1982 Earls Court
EACH NEW YEAR, during the Boat Show at Earls Court, the boating industry gives most generous recognition and support to the lifeboat service. Among the eminent people who have been invited to open the show in past years— who include Prince...
Category: Articles
A Motor Cruiser
Poole, Dorset. At 6.45 on the evening of the 5th of February, 1961, the honor- ary secretary was told by the police that calls for help had been heard coming from the direction of Holes Bay. When the life-boat Thomas Kirk Wright was launched...
Barry Dock August 8 1987:
BARRY DOCK, August 8, 1987: both Barry Dock's Arun and Penarth's 16ft inflatable were called out when this drilling rig, in use for the proposed barrage at Cardiff, broke through the crust of the sea bed and listed to 40 degrees. Two... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Brighton's Relief Atlantic 21 Rigid Inflatable Lifeboat on Exercise Off Brighton Marina Photograph By Courtesy of Crew Member Alan J Young
Brighton's relief Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat on exercise off Brighton Marina. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Crew Member Alan J. Young. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Admiralty L.C.T.711 and Her Consort, L.C.T.723
DECEMBER 22ND. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At 4.55 in the afternoon the Portland Bill coastguard telephoned that a red distress signal had been seen a mile north of the Shambles Light-vessel. A strong southsouth- west wind was...
An American Thunderjet Fighter
Ramsgate, Walmer, and Dover, Kent.
—At 10.8 in the morning of the 13th of September, 1951, the Ramsgate coastguard telephoned to the Rams- gate life-boat station that an aeroplane, an American Thunderjet fighter, had...
Past and Present
25 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT December 1965 Scottish Station Closed The life-boat station at Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, was closed on 30th September. The life-boat had not been called out on service for nearly four years, and it...
Category: Articles