LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wicklow
wu KI.OW, Thursday February 13, 1986: the 42ft Watson class lifeboat. J. W. Archer, setting out at 132S on service in a gale force 8 to 9 south-easterly, to go to the aid of a catamaran some 20 miles to the south east of the station. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Jo Allam
Mrs Jo Allam, 'the lifeboat lady' of Weston-super-Mare, has made the lifeboat service her life for the past 27 years. Her husband, in the Merchant Service, was one of 41 men lost when ss Samtampa was driven ashore on rocks off Sker... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Aphrodite Dive
Members of the Episkopi Sub-Aqua Club in Cyprus held a sponsored dive from Aphrodite's Rock, near Paphos to Tunnel Beach, Episkopi, a distance of 15 nautical miles, and raised just over £ 1,000 for lifeboat funds.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lives Lost, 1853
The whole loss of lives during the year, as far as has been ascertained, amounts to 989.
Of these, 18 went down with the Herdd, which sunk off the Start, after collision with a schooner at night, on 10th January; 83 in the...
Category: Articles
Flashing Stream
Sheringham, Norfolk.—At 12.45 on the afternoon of the 2nd of December, 1955, the Cromer coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Tudor Queen had wirelessed that she had found the motor yacht Flashing Stream, with a crew of two, fifteen miles...
Davenport
May Meeting.
Eastbourne, Sussex.—On the morning of the 27th February a man reported that he had seen a vessel showing flares. She was the barge Davenport, of Ipswich, bound with a crew of three, and cargo of firebricks,...
Saturday night, Sunday morning
An unconventional launch followed by 8 hours at sea in near gale force conditions – ‘business as usual,’ say the crew of The Lizard lifeboat, Cornwall.
At midnight on Saturday 11 September the crew assembled on the village...
Category: Articles
All In a Day's Work
How does a volunteer lifeboat crew member find the time to juggle their work and personal life with their lifeboat duties - and why? Jon Jones spent some time on the Isle of Wight with Bembridge coxswain Martin Woodward to try to get some...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats (2)
OCTOBER 29TH. - EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE.
During the afternoon three local fishing boats in Eyemouth Bay were seen making for harbour in a strong N.E. gale, with a very heavy sea, and the motor life-boat Frank and William...
Blanche
THREE HOURS OVERDUE Wells, Norfolk. At 11.22 a.m. on 2nd July, 1964, the life-boat coxswain noticed that a local fishing boat was three hours overdue from a fishing trip. The vessel could not be seen and he decided to launch to investigate...