LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Playing Pool at Fleetwood
It looks like baby spew...', explained instructor Dave Eccles.
He was of course talking about the fluid which can occur in the lungs of a casualty when a lot of sea water is ingested. I was soon learn that this...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy
MAN, WOMAN AND DOG TAKEN OFF DINGHY Swanage, Dorset. At 3.33 on the afternoon of the 12th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a large yellow rubber dinghy was drifting out to sea one mile southsouth- east of...
The Tamar's Pre-Production Hull
The Tamar's Pre-Production Hull. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Life-Boat Song
'Tis a stormy night, and the wild winds roar, The waves roll mountains high, And the Life-boat crew are called to the shore.
For a ship to the rocks is nigh. : Not a moment waver our heroes bold, As their boat they...
Category: Poetry
A Starving Crew
ON 27th October, when the motor life-boat from Pwllheli was out on practice in half a gale, with a heavy sea running, she was hailed by the steamer Marjorie, of Liverpool, anchored in St. Tudwal's Roads. The Marjorie was on her way to...
Category: Services
(Below) If a Tow Line Is Put Aboard It Will Be Longer Than You Might Expect -
(Below) If a tow line is put aboard it will be longer than you might expect - Frank Smith of Salcombe never uses less than 120 metres, and if there's any sea it could be 200 metres longer than that.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
What a race! Holidaymakers joined local well wishers on the harbour bridge to cheer two rafts in a race
What a race! Holidaymakers joined local well wishers on the harbour bridge to cheer two rafts in a race which took them the length of Lake Lathing, around the derelict trawler Yellowtail and back to the starting point at the bridge. Teams... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Try
Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 10.20 a.m. on 13th October, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat had fired red flares two miles off the harbour.
At 10.39 the life-boat Tynesider was launched in...
A Thank You for Aberdeen Crew from Men Taken from Burning Netta Croan Photograph By Courtesy of the 'Daily Express'
A thank you for Aberdeen crew from men taken from burning Netta Croan. - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of the 'Daily Express'.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy (5)
Ilfracombe, Devon - At 6.10 p.m. on 29th May, 1966, the police informed the honorary secretary that a small dinghy off Bull Point appeared to be drifting. A helicopter had been called and the coastguards advised that it would be best to...