LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Protective Clothing
A GREAT PROBLEM is posed by protective clothing. 'Oilskins' made of a single layer of waterproof material will keep out the wet, but, because of the difference in temperature between the outside atmosphere and the body heat, and...
Category: Articles
A Boat
Swamped LOCHGILPHEAD POLICE informed Clyde Coastguard on the afternoon of Sunday September 11, 1983, that a report had been received of a boat in distress in Loch Fyne, between Ardrishaig and Kilfinnan. Further investigations were made and...
A Motor Launch
LAUNCH WAS OVERDUE At 5.45 a.m. on 3rd September, 1964, the harbour office told the honorary secretary that a motor launch had left Dublin for Dun Laoghaire at midday and had not yet arrived. There was thick fog at the time with light airs...
An Aeroplane
On 14th January a man from Dinmor Quarry saw an aeroplane apparently nose-dive either on to Puffin Island or into the sea, and reported it to the Coastguard, who notified the Life-boat Station.
This was at 3.30 P.M. The...
Cardenia
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 12.22 on the afternoon of the 29th of July, 1956, the Foreland coastguard reported that a yacht was making distress sig- nals off St. Helen's Fort. The life- boat Jesse Lumb, which had just returned from an...
Five Honorary Workers
MRS. EDITH MA.NBY MRS. EDITH MANBY of Codsall, Staf- fordshire, died in February, 1951, at the age of nearly 86. For almost fifty years she had been an active life-boat worker in the Codsall area, and for some years was president of the...
Category: Obituaries
Lt Cdr R M Richards,
Lt Cdr R M Richards, President of Barmouth station. He joined before 1967 and was Chairman from 1968 until 1979 when he became President. He was awarded the Silver badge in 1986.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Browns of Cresswell
THERE has been a Life-boat at Cresswell, on the Northumbrian coast, for the last fifty years. What manner of place it is was described by the then Hon. Secre- tary in an article which appeared in! The Lifeboat in February,...
Category: Articles
Indus and the Dock Board Hopper Mersey No. 24
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 16th of February, 1956, the Formby coastguard rang up to say that a message had been received from the port radar station that the M.V. Indus had collided with the Dock Board hopper...
Sincerity
Six-hour service in horrific conditions to fishermen wrecked on rocks When the fishing vessel Sincerity went aground in stormy conditions off Ardlamont Point, the Campbeltown lifeboat had to travel 30 miles in total darkness just to reach...