LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sutton-On-Sea and Trusthorpe Guild
Sutton-on-Sea and Trusthorpe guild have had their fund raising prowess recognised by the BBC. David Hamilton's music show on Radio 2 gives a 'Top Team Award' and chose these ladies for their record sum raised in 1982, which was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sea Caress, of Skibbereen and The Gem
JANUARY 1 7TH. - BALTIMORE, CO.
CORK. At 9.50 at night friends of the crew of the motor fishing boat Sea Caress, of Skibbereen, reported that the boat was in distress five miles to the south-east of Baltimore Harbour, and...
The Old Salcombe Life-Boat Sarah Ann Holden
Salcombe, Devon.-—The motor lifeboat Alfred and Clara Heath was launched at 9.45 P.M. on the 8th August in response to flares reported by Bolt Head coastguard four miles west of Bolt. A light N.W. breeze was blowing, and the sea was smooth....
Braced for Action: Lt Alan Tate Strapped In and Ready for the Next Wave
Braced For Action: Lt Alan Tate Strapped In and Ready For The Next Wave. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Marske Fisherman's Choir Founded Simply to Give Pleasure to Others Has Made a Second Lp Record In Aid of the Lifeboat Service the Record from the Profits of Which
Marske Fisherman's Choir, founded simply to give pleasure to others, has made a second LP record in aid of the lifeboat service. The record, from the profits of which it is hoped to fund an inshore lifeboat, is available from A. M. Lloyd... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A True Story of a Life-Boat Day
IT was life-boat day in Greater London, and it was my privilege to help at a depot which was housed in one of London's famous churches. A busy day was coming to a close and the last collector had handed in her box. It only remained for...
Category: Articles
(Right) Lt Cdr Brian Miles Inserts the Final Piece
(right) Lt Cdr Brian Miles inserts the final piece in the jigsaw - a symbolic completion of the seven-year plan to have fast lifeboats at every one of the RNLI's lifeboat stations.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sir David a G Mackworth Bt, Cdr Rn,
Sir David A G Mackworth BT, cdr RN, Former deputy launching authority at Hayling Island lifeboat station . Sir David became DLA in 1974, a position he held until he was 73, In 1989 he became chairman of the station committee and was awarded...
Category: Obituaries
The Fishing Trawler Elizabeth Ann Webster
Anchors dragging ON MONDAY MORNING, April 7, the Coastguard informed Padstow honorary secretary that a 90' beam fishing trawler, Elizabeth Ann Webster of 112 tons carrying a crew of six, had broken down with gear box trouble 17| nautical...
The Drowned at Sea
NEVER bronze or slab of stone May their sepulchre note; O'er their burial-place alone, Shall the shifting sea-weed float.
Not for them the quiet grave .Underneath the daisied turf; They rest below the restless wave,...
Category: Poetry