LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Portrait of a Coxswain
Coxswain Robert Lee, of the Douglas, l.o.M., life-boat fl. A ColbyGubbinNo.2. Appointed coxswain in April, 1950, he had been a member of the crew for many years. Coxswain Lee's grandfather was bowman until he was lost at sea while...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats (7)
OCT. 26TH. - EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE.
A whole N.E. by N. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea in Eyemouth Bay. Four local fishing boats were waiting to enter the port. The motor life-boat Frank and William Oates was...
Mrs E M Miller-Barstow OBE
Mrs E M Miller-Barstow OBE MA JP DSTJ, President of the Westonsuper- mare station branch from 1980 to 1996..
Category: Obituaries
Two Inflatable Dinghies (1)
Salcombe lifeboat THE HONORARY SECRETARY of SalCOmbe lifeboat station was informed by Brixham Coastguard at 1313 on Sunday April 10, 1983, that an inflatable dinghy had capsized on the Skerries Bank at the southern end of Start Bay: two...
The Admiralty Drifter Ocean Vine
AUGUST 11TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At 1.55 A.M. the coastguard reported a boat in difficulties off Black Rocks, Salt Island. She was flashing a torch. A W.N.W.
gale was blowing, with a nasty, choppy sea,...
The Crew Approach Cautiously,
The crew approach cautiously, aware that on-board distress flares could explode at any moment. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Upper Photograph Shows the Moment the Slings Were Released
The Upper Photograph Shows The Moment The Slings Were Released. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Ketches F. H. Bolt and Anne, and Crabbers St. Eloi, Susanne Yvonne, etc
ON the 29th July the St. Ives Life-boat performed a series of arduous services, going out five times to the rescue of no fewer than ten vessels, and saving forty men, in the course of seven hours.
On the 28th July a strong...
Wales Community news
Tenby
RESCUEE RETURNS WITH THANKS
James Probert says he ‘simply would not be here’ if not for the quick and professional response of his rescuers. The 58-year-old father of four collapsed in a car park...
Category: Articles