LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pilot Me (1)
— The Whitby motor fishing boat Pilot Me was unable to make her home port on the morning of 8th April owing to a moderate northerly gale and very rough sea. She decided to run for Scarborough, and this information having been passed on by...
The S.S. Harley
FEBRUARY 5TH. - CROMARTY. At 6.25 A.M. the Burghead coastguard reported distress signals from a vessel aground one mile west of Findhorn, and the motor life-boat James Macfee was launched at 6.45 A.M. A moderate S.W. wind was blowing, with a...
A Surf Board
Surfer saved by inshore lifeboat in severe gale and heavy seas Helmsman Stuart Roberts of Porthcawl's D class inshore lifeboat was awarded a Silver Medal for outstanding bravery during the rescue of a surfer in very rough seas on 30...
A Hundred Years Ago
An extract from The Life-boat, or Journal of the National Shipwreck Institution, 1853.
THE Committee regret to have to state that the frequency of shipwrecks on the coasts of the United Kingdom, during the past twelve...
Category: Articles
Northness
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At 7.15 in the morning of the 27th of July, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore a mile west of Rue Point, and a few minutes later she was reported to be blowing S.O.S. on her whistle. The motor...
The Sailing Barge Olive May and theYachts Marieta and Saeth
Effective co-operation A FRESH WEST by southerly breeze gusting to near gale, force 7, was blowing along the south coast off Eastbourne on the afternoon of Monday September 1, 1986, when the town's 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat was...
Life-Boat Rescue from the Land
THE Motor Life-boat at Wexford in Ireland has had the curious experience of rescuing a man from the land.
For many years the Wexford Life- boat Station was situated at the end of Rosslare Point, a spit several miles long...
Category: Services
New Books and a Play
EVEN those who know the Life-boat Service will find very much to interest them in How Men are Rescued from the Sea by Patrick Howarth (Routiedge and Kegan Paul, 10s. 6d.), as it des- cribes, briefly and swiftly, all the services which guide,...
Category: Articles
Emlyn Hughes
Emlyn Hughes, the former England football captain, while visiting his home town of Barrow-in-Furness, toppled a pile of pennies which had been growing on the bar of Roa Island Hotel. Barrow businessmen Peter Jackson and Mike McKenzie doubled... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Canoe (3)
Redcar, Yorkshire. At 10.30 on the morning of the 21st of June, 1960, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that the beach patrol at Saltburn had seen two boys leave Salt- burn at 9.30 that morning in a small canoe. He had lost sight...