LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
February (1)
LISMORE ISLAND, ARGYLLSHIRE. Some American sailors belonging to a Greek ship in convoy absented themselves and went to a hotel at Port Appin on the mainland. By some means they arrived at Lismore Island, Loch Linnehe, and were eventually...
Category: Services
Net Profit
Hilti Industries of West Bromwich supported two of their managers, Martin Parker and Jim Coombes (who is also a member of the Stourbridge branch) by sponsoring them in a 24- hour deep sea fish to raise funds for Aberdovey lifeboat..View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Time and tide
How one woman’s generosity and a volunteer crew’s commitment made a 12-hour rescue possible
The lifeboat crew from the Isle of Barra in the Outer Hebrides worked through the night aboard the...
Category: Articles
Willowbrook (1)
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Evening Star
Arbroath, Angus - At 10.45 a.m. on r 8th October, 1966, concern was felt for the motor fishing vessel Evening Star which was still at sea. The weather conditions were deteriorating rapidly. At 2.10 p.m. it was decided to launch the life-boat...
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JULY 15TH. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 4.5 in the afternoon a message was received from the Tynemouth coastguard that bathers were in difficulties at Sharpness Point, Tynemouth. A fresh north-east wind was blowing,...
Cruiser and Crete Avon (1)
Penlee, and The Lizard, Cornwall.—At 9.40 on the night of the 1st of March, 1956, the St. Just coastguard rang up the Penlee life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Crete Avon, of London, a vessel of 4,100 tons, had been in tow of the...
A Ship’s Boat (5)
DECEMBER 25TH. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
At 11.50 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a boat could be seen drifting about 3 miles N.E. of the coastguard station. A moderate easterly wind was blowing, with a...
Weymouth Ladies' Guild
Weymouth ladies' guild raised £700 for branch funds at its annual wine and cheese party in the Springfield Room at Devenish Brewery on April I . The Mayor of Weymouth and Portland, Mrs Joyce Litschi, presented an oil painting of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Inschallah
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 3.16 on the morning of the llth of August, 1957, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that a distress signal had been seen two miles south of Portland Bill. At 3.40 the life-boat William and Clara Kyland put out in a...