LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Stamp Club
Miss MARGARET POWER, of Mount Royal, Old Common, Cobham, Surrey, the honorary secretary of the Life-boat Stamp Club, will be very glad to receive from readers of The Life-boat any stamps of the King Edward VIII issue which they will be...
Category: Articles
Casamance (2)
FEBRUARY 17TH. - HARTLEPOOL, AND SEAHAM, DURHAM, AND REDCAR, AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. Shortly after midnight a message came to the Hartlepool honorary secretary’s house from the coastguard that the life-boat was wanted. The honorary secretary...
Two slips in 6 hours
KYLE OF LOCHALSH | 13 SEPTEMBER
A canoeist endured a night alone in a cave by Loch Carron after slipping and injuring himself. In the morning he crawled out to get reception on his mobile and called...
Category: Articles
Floreat
MAY 17TH. - ARBROATH, ANGUS. Late at night it was learnt that the local fishing boat Floreat was three hours overdue.
Although the weather was fine the motor lifeboat John and William Mudie was launched at midnight to...
Lena, of Waterford
NOVEMBER 16TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. At 3.35 in the afternoon coastwatchers at Brownstown Head saw a boat in difficulties in Tramore Bay and informed the life-boat station. A strong south-south-east wind was blowing, with a very...
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...
Category: Articles
Belle Souris and Kaloma
Two yachts ON SUNDAY June 1, 1980, at 1732, Portland Coastguard reported to a deputy launching authority of Swanage lifeboat station that red flares from one or two yachts had been sighted about five miles south of St Alban's...
You'll Never Do It' They Said ' You're Mad ' But Dickon Sandbach and Nick Bale Undeterred Brought to Reality Their Dream: a Charity Cycle Ride from Land's End to John
* You'll never do it,' they said. ' You're mad . . .' but Dickon Sandbach and Nick Bale, undeterred, brought to reality their dream: a charity cycle ride from Land's End to John O'Groats. For two years they... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Eagle
Shortly be- fore midnight on the 18th-19th March flares were observed about three miles to the north of the Winterton station, and the crew of the No. 2 Life-boat were promptly mustered. There was a strong S. by E. breeze with a heavy ground...
A Sailing Boat
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 3.10 on the afternoon of the 25th of Septem- ber, 1955, the Polruan coastguard telephoned that a sailing boat had cap- sized off Buley Beach between. Pol- kerris and Par. Four people were clinging to her bottom. At 3.25...