LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shooting the Action
The RNLI/Kodak Photography Competition prompted an overwhelming response. After much deliberation the judges chose this outstanding photograph by Hilary Watkins, a senior NHS Manager, as the overall winner.
Hilary's...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Ballyhalbert
Troon, Ayrshire. At 2.30 on the morning of the 9th of January, 1958, the Portpatrick coastguard told the honor- ary secretary that the S.S. Ballyhalbert of Belfast was aground hah0 a mile north of Ardrossan. At three o'clock the...
A Winter Gale
By the REV. THOMAS GUTHRIE, D.D.
THE gale of the 3rd of December last was a destructive hurricane. It would appear, from observations made at Liverpool, that its utmost severity fell on that town and its neighbourhood ;...
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SEPTEMBER 2ND. - MARGATE, KENT.
During the afternoon the coastguard reported that a party of bathers off Nayland Rock had got into difficulties. A fresh easterly wind was blowing, with a rough sea. As it was dead low water...
Thurne
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 17th of September, 1952, the Foreland coast- guard telephoned that a sailing yacht was in distress two miles south-east of the look-out hut, near the Princessa Buoy. Ten...
False Alarms
(N The Lifeboat for November, 1925, two cases were mentioned of Life-boats going out owing to lights on land being mis- taken for lights at sea. In one case the Selsey Life-boat cruised about for three hours and could find no vessel, the...
Category: Articles
Stranraer:
Stranraer: The station's 15ft 6in D class inflatable lifeboat was on exercise on the morning of Sunday September 9, 1984, when it became clear to the crew that a specially converted Volkswagen Beetle needed towing to safety after it had... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Naming Ceremonies
TEN new motor life-boats were named during 1951. Seven were on the Eng- lish coast, at New Brighton (Liverpool), Margate, Scarborough, Lytham, Culler- coats, Newbiggin and Redcar; two on the Scottish coast, at Arbroath and Anstruther; and...
Category: Inaugurations
Sunbeam
— Six men, -whilst working on the Pit Heap, Newburgh Colliery, saw the coble Sun- beam, of Newbiggin, capsize in Druridge Bay. A messenger was sent for the Life-boat, and the remaining five, knowing that there was a small boat lying on the...
A Small Boat (2)
MAY 1ST. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.
At 5.30 in the afternoon the Dock Board reported a small boat, with two boys on board, off C.6 Red Buoy, in the Mersey, rapidly drifting out to sea. The No. 2 motor life-boat Edmund and...