LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
News and Views
SEA Check under way The RNLI's Sea Safety team has been helping to educate sea users of all kinds since the initiative was first launched some four years ago, but it is now breaking new ground with its SEA Check scheme.
Category: Articles
A Yacht
Yacht aground THE POLICE informed Barrow coxswain, Robert Charnley, at 2300 on August 24, 1974, that an independent source had reported the sighting of a red flare north of Walney Island. They were advising HM Coastguard, who would be...
OBITUARY: Captain Ramsay of Mar
Captain Ramsay of Mar With regret we report the death of Captain Alexander Ramsay of Mar MA FRICS DL, honorary life governor and vice convener of the Scottish lifeboat council 1965-1989, who died on 19 December...
Category: Obituaries
Naming Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats
DURING the past summer the naming ceremonies have been held of ten motor life-boats, at Gourdon, Hythe, Ilfra- combe, North Sunderland, Port St.
Mary, St. David's, Sheringham, Sunder- land, Wells, and Yarmouth, Isle of ...
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Clapham Battersea and Wandsworth Celebrate Ten Years of Fundraising
Clapham, Battersea and Wandsworth celebrate ten years of fundraising.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Book Reviews
Mr. Michael Elder has succeeded admirably in his task of presenting anew a number of the great rescues carried out by men of the life-boat service. These are contained in For Those in Peril (John Murray, 18s.).
Most of the...
Category: Articles
In London for the Annual Meeting
Coxswain Mark Bates. In front: Mr. John Crook (see page 72). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Richard Davies, Coxswain of Cromer Lifeboat
I Richard Da vies, coxswain of Cromer lifeboat, first joined the crew in 1962 and then served as second coxswain from 1975 until his appointment as coxswain in 1976. Richard was also a crew member of the station's inshore lifeboat from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fleetwood Life-Boat
8th January.
The Fleetwood life-boat on passage to her station had engine trouble, but did not need help.—Rewards, £2 10s..
Lauton
Information having been received at this station about 9 A.M.
on the 30th November, at which time it was blowing a gale from the N.E., ac- companied by snow squalls, that a vessel had been wrecked on the Fidra Island, 3...