LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
Support our volunteer crews It was an excellent idea to enclose the two eye catching Support our volunteer crews window stickers with the Spring 2003 issue of the Lifeboat.
Until a few years ago we used to have Support the...
Category: Correspondence
Torridge Warrior
Fishing vessel towed to safety in storm force winds Appledore and Ilfracombe lifeboats were both involved in a service to a fishing vessel near Bideford Bar on 31 March 1994. Coxswain Michael Bowden of Appledore lifeboat was awarded the...
Eleventh RNLI national lottery winners
THE ELEVENTH RNLI national lottery was drawn at Poole HQ on January 30 by Mr P. H. Byrt, manager of Poole branch of Marks and Spencer, a company which has given considerable support to the lifeboat service in a number of ways. Poole lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Fit and Strong
One need only look at the cork-clad oarsmen of over 100 years ago or the 'lady launchers'of the 1950s to see just how much has changed over the decades in saving lives at sea. Today's crews and lifeguards have previously undreamt...
Category: Articles
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Swanage, Dorset. At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message from the Swanage ambulance station that a man had fallen down the cliffs near Ballard Point. At 2.41 the life- boat R.L.P. was...
Democrat
Shortly after 1 AM on the 13th October j a deplorable disaster overtook the St. David's Life-boat, Gam, after she had rescued three men from the ketch j Democrat, of Barnstaple. The Democrat was riding with her two anchors down on...
Shantico
Dangerously dehydrated On 25 April 2006, three lifeboats worked together to save a 14m yacht and her crew sinking off Ardlamont Point, Loch Fyne.
Launching at I.OSpmTighnabruaich's B class Alec and Maimie Preston was...
Castletownbere Lifeboat Crew
L to R: Brendan Connelly, Second Coxswain Michael Martin-Sullivan, Paddy O'Conor, Paul Stevens and Coxswain Brian O'Driscoll (Joseph O'Sullivan Jnr attended the course on another date and is not pictured).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter By the Editor
THE STORY OF 'The Year of the Lifeboat', 1974, was one of a triumph of faith: faith in a service of 150 years' standing and of the voluntary principle which is its essence, faith in the capacity of the voluntary workers of the...
Category: Articles
Samuel Dixon
WICKLOW.—The Bolert T. Garden Life-boat was launched at 7.30 A.M. on the 1st November, and proceeded to the assistance of the schooner Samuel Dixon, of "Wexford, bound from Llanelly for Wexford with a cargo of coal, which had shown a...