LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Nestlea and Dereske
NOVEMBER 1 8 - 2 0TH. - BALTIMORE, COURTMACSHERRY, AND BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. About 10.30 A.M. a wireless message, which had been picked up at Cork, was received at Baltimore that the steamer Nestlea, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had been attacked...
Effecting Communication With Stranded Vessels
THE mortar and rocket apparatus around the coasts of the United Kingdom, as stated in an early number of this Journal, is for the most part under the charge of the Coast- guard, who have frequently performed in- valuable services with it,...
Category: Articles
Golf Competition
IN 1933, for the third tune, an appeal was made to golf clubs to hold a com- petition in aid of the life-boat service.
In 1931 it was made to the principal clubs in Kent, Surrey and Sussex; in 1932 to the principal clubs in...
Category: Articles
B.P. Marketer
Kirkcudbright.—At nine o'clock on the morning of the 28th of December, 1956, a local resident informed the life-boat station that the tanker B.P.
Marketer was in trouble in very bad weather in Dhoon Bay. At 9.52 the...
A Fishing Boat
Fishing party DUNGENESS LIFEBOAT, the 37ft 6in Rother Alice Upjohn, had launched on exercise on Thursday March 8 and was close to her station when, at 1700, two local fishermen on shore were seen waving. Second Coxswain Peter Thomas, in...
Rnli National Lottery
THE DUKE OF ATHOLL, chairman of the RNLI, came to Poole headquarters on Wednesday October 31 to draw the 20 winners of the twenty-seventh national lottery. More than £45,000 had been raised and the chairman was successful in drawing...
Category: Articles
La Boussole
Sinking yacht JERSEY RADIO received a MAYDAY relay call at 2215 on the night of Sunday August 5, 1984. The 25ft French sloop, La Boussole, had hit a rock north of Alderney and was sinking. Alderney lifeboat station was notified and at 2233...
Teesmouth September 14 1986:
Teesmouth, September 14, 1986: Tees Dock quay space is normally full of steel ready for export. This particular Sunday, however, saw a small oasis of colour appear as the site was made ready for the naming ceremony of Teesmouth's 47ft... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Welcome
After an action-packed summer on the water, autumn finds us in a reflective mood
As we sent Lifeboat to print, the sun had been baking the UK and Ireland for weeks. And we weren’t complaining! But warm weather draws crowds...
Category: Articles
Sea Queen and Golden Horn
The Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Lizzie Porter was launched at 9.30 A.M. on the 10th October, as a very heavy sea had got up, with heavy rain showers and a strong and increas- ing N.E. wind, and the local fishing coble Sea Queen was at sea....