LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
No Small Tempest Lay on Us
AT a life-boat service held at Lande- wednack Parish Church, and attended by the crews of the Lizard, Cadgwith and Coverack life-boats, on 22nd August, 1954, a diocesan lay reader took as his text Acts 27 verse 20: And when neither sun nor...
Category: Articles
Robert Burgon, Ex-Coxswain at Berwick-on-Tweed
Robert Burgon, at one time Coxswain of the Berwick-on-Tweed Station, was drowned, on the morning of 24th March, with two other men in a motor fishingboat which was swamped by heavy seas and sank when crossing the bar on their way home. Born...
Category: Obituaries
When Hm the Queen Visited Shetland In May to Open Sullom Voe Oil
When HM The Queen visited Shetland in May to open Sullom Voe Oil Terminal, accompanied by HM King Olav of Norway and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, the Royal party also took a walk in Lerwick, stopping to talk with crew members aboard the Arun... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Here be dragons
Tower is the RNLI’s busiest lifeboat station, and its crew were really in demand on 5 September, rescuing 106 people in 2 hours.
This large number of casualties were taking part in a popular race, in which dragon boats,...
Category: Articles
Philip Denham Helmsman of One of Blackpool's Two D Class Lifeboats
Philip Denham, helmsman of one of Blackpool's two D class lifeboats, joined the crew in 1977.
He was awarded a bronze medal in 1988 for gallantry in recognition of the courage, skill and determination he displayed... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Mersey Class Freddie Cooper Waits on the Beach at Aldeburgh During Her Official Naming Ceremony on 31 May 1994.
The Mersey class Freddie Cooper waits on the beach at Aldeburgh during her official naming ceremony on 31 May 1994.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Unseaworthy Ships
UNSEAWORTHY SHIPS.
To the Editor of the Life-Boat Journal.
SIR, As the saving of life from shipwreck must always be a subject of great interest to the public of this country, by whatever means it may be...
Category: Correspondence
Trefoil, of Donaghadee
SEPTEMBER 3RD. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. At five o’clock in the afternoon it was learned that a yacht was in distress off the Copeland Islands in Belfast Lough. A south-south-east gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The...
S.S. Wilno, of Gdynia, Poland
APRIL 22ND. - CAISTER, NORFOLK. A message was received from the Winterton coastguard at 12.50 in the afternoon that a steamer appeared to be aground on North Caister Shoal about two miles from the coastguard station. A moderate...
Dalkeith, of Stornoway
The Life-boat Charley Lloyd, in answer to a signal of distress shown from the schooner Dalkeith, of Stornoway, went off at 5 A.M. on the 16th Dec. The Dalkeith was anchored in Serab- ster Roads, but the violence of the wind had caused her to...