LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Raising the Roof!
Raising the roof! ... and the walls, and everything else come to that! This is one way of dealing with a boathouse which is surplus to requirements - in this case at Number.
The terms of the RNLI's lease dictated that... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Home Income Gold
"Extra cash has changed our lives Like so many other retired couples, Graham Southworth and his wife Marjorie of Blackpool have realised that they can afford a few luxuries in retirement - by making use of their biggest asset: their...
Category: Advertisement
The Life-Boat Regulations
THE following Regulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT Is- srmrnoN, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...
Category: Articles
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Lerwick, Shetland*.—At 10.10 on the morning of the 12th of April, 1951, the County Medical Officer of Health tele- phoned and asked that the life-boat take a doctor to Fair Isle to attend a man with appendicitis. At 10.50 the life-boat John...
Naom Seaghan
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At nine in the morning of the 10th of April, 1948, information was received from the Civic Guards that a fishing boat, which had left Cahirciveen the previous afternoon, had not returned. Enquiries were made, but without...
Taranaki
Torbay, Devon. — At 10.15 in the morning of the 30th of March, 1952, the life-boat shore attendant reported that a ship at the mouth of Torbay had asked for a pilot. The breeze from the east-north-east was moderate, but the sea was rough and...
Popsy
Plymouth, South Devon. At 7.30 p.m. on I2th August, 1965, the police at Plympton reported that a man at Wembury Point had seen a small yacht capsize off Gara Point. At 7.47 the life-boat Lloyds, on temporary duty at the station, proceeded in...
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Galway Bay. At 4 p.m. on i3th November, 1965, the local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would take a sick man from the Inishmaan island to the mainland for hospital treatment, as no other suitable boat was available. The...
A Paravane
DECEPTIVE PARAVANE At 1.46 a.m. on I4th February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a white flashing light had been seen half a mile east-south-east of Ventnor coastguard look-out. The life-boat crew assembled while...
Snuffbox
TWO ON BOARD YACHT At 10.7 p.m. on I3th June, 1964, the coxswain told the coastguard that as a yacht had run aground near St. Helen's Fort and had been firing flares he had decided to launch. At 10.18 the life-boat Cunard, on temporary...