LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Airy Fairy, Billy Whizz and Broadaxe
Three yachts saved PARTICIPANTS IN THE Isle of Man's round the island race in May found themselves contending with a south-south-westerly gale and very high seas. It was at 2240 on the night of Sunday May 25, 1986, when the honorary...
Peggy
Ex pilot cutter HARTLAND COASTGUARD received a message from the British coaster Candourity at 0255 on Monday September 3, 1979, reporting the sighting of a red flare and a flashing light from a yacht some 13 miles north by east of Trevose...
The Storeyard's Children's Party
THE Eighth Christmas Party, given to poor children by the staff of the Institu- tion's Storeyard at Broomfield Street, Poplar, with the help of the staff at Headquarters, took place on 19th December at the Bromley Public...
Category: Articles
Three Triumphant Waves from (I to R) Dawn Moore Her Husband Jon and Maggie
Three triumphant waves from (I to r) Dawn Moore, her husband Jon and Maggie Annat. They have just completed a remarkable 22 week circumnavigation of Britain by canoe. All three are instructors at Outward Bound Wales at Aberdovey and Dawn and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Converted Ship's Life-Boat
HANDKERCHIEF SIGNAL At 10.42 a.m. the next day, the Rame Head coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Plympton police had reported that a boat needing help about a mile off Bovisand was under observation from Breakwater Fort and did...
Small Boat Big Record
Small boat, big record A weekend in August saw an event with a difference - a 24-hour sponsored sail organised by the Conisbrough and Hemsworth model boat clubs to see how far a model boat could travel in the time.
A new... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Long Distance Walker
When 21-year-old Guy Pain arrived at Poole headquarters at 5 pm one August afternoon the office was closing but a special celebration in his honour was ready to begin. For Guy, who suffers the handicap of diabetes, had reached his...
Category: Donations
The Southport and St. Anne's Disaster
DECEMBER 9th of last year was the fiftieth anniversary of the great disaster on the Lancashire coast when the life-boats at Southport and St. Anne's were both capsized, with the loss of 27 lives, in an attempt to rescue the crew of the...
Category: Articles
Plover
FISHING BOAT TOWED IN FOG Newhaven, Sussex. At 8.20 on the evening of the 17th October, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that men working on the sea defences near the Buckle Inn had heard cries for help coming from...
Rangor
BY BREECHES BUOY Lerwick, Shetlands. At 1.4 a.m. on iyth January, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that they had fired a warning rocket and that a fishing vessel which had gone near the Ness of Sound had stopped and burnt a...