LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Introduction
IF there be one subject more than another that might be expected to command the attention and enlist the sympathy of a maritime country like Great Britain, it surely must be the safety and welfare of those of her sons " whose business...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats (2)
Girvan, Ayrshire.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 17th of February, 1955, the coxswain reported that local fishing boats were returning to the har- bour in a rough sea and a strong north- north-west wind, and that conditions at the...
Seven Men Rescued from Trawler Aground
FOUR minutes after midnight on I3th December, 1963, the coxswain of the Caister life-boat, J. R. Plummer, learnt from the Gorleston coastguard that a vessel appeared to be in trouble two miles from the North Denes look- out. Coxswain Plummer...
Category: Services
Trapped up to their waists
Morecambe | 4 September
When an elderly couple got trapped up to their waists in mud -with the tide coming in- Morecambe RNLI's hovercraft crew flew to the...
Category: Articles
A Gift to the Newhaven Station from Brighton
THE Brighton Round Table, some of whose members -went out on an exercise launch in the Newhaven life-boat in the summer of 1951, has presented a clock to the crew to hang in the boat-house..
Category: Donations
Blyth Lifeboatmen Try Out a Rother Lifeboat at Swanage: (Above I to R) Lt Alan Tate Divisional Inspector of Lifeboat (Ne) Assistant Mechanic John Scott Motor Mechan
Blyth lifeboatmen try out a Rother lifeboat at Swanage: (above, I. to r.) Lt Alan Tate, divisional inspector of lifeboat (NE), Assistant Mechanic John Scott, Motor Mechanic Colin Cuthbertson, and Crew Members Les Fay, George Turner, Tom Moss... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Motor Fishing Vessels Betty, Liberty and Dainty Lady
EASTERLY GALE Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 9.50 a.m.
on ist March, 1965, the harbour master informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessels Betty, Liberty and Dainty Lady were at sea and that since they had...
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Stronsay, Orkneys.—At 3.38 on the afternoon of the 7th of January, 1956.
the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that two men were marooned on an old wreck close in shore in Inganess Bay. He reported that the coast- guard...
(Below Right) Coxswain Harry Jones Welcomes the Chairman Major-General Ralph Farrant to Hoylake Lifeboat Station on April 25 Committee and Crew Were Present In Str
(Below right) Coxswain Harry Jones welcomes the Chairman, Major-General Ralph Farrant, to Hoylake lifeboat station on April 25.
Committee and crew were present in strength to meet him and show him their 37' 6"... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Marie Josephine
At 6.30 P.M. on the 6th November, information was received at this Life-boat Station of a vessel being stranded on the Doom bar. The Life-boat Albert Edward proceeded to her assistance, and was successful in rescuing 4 men who had been...