LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
David & Ann
Filey, Yorkshire. At 11.10 a.m. on i6th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing coble, five miles east of Filey buoy, was at sea in worsening weather conditions. The life-boat The Isa & Penryn Milsted...
Five Members of Rayners Lane
Five members of Rayners Lane branch raised more than £300 in a six-mile sponsored canoe paddle on the Grand Union Canal in Hertfordshire on Saturday June 19—and it rained! The team took it in turn to paddle the canoe, generously donated... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Busiest July since 2006
As the Lifeboat went to print, the rescue reports coming in from our lifeboat stations and lifeguard units showed 2013 is set to be one of the busiest Summers on record. People flocked to the coast during the sunny days of July, which was...
Category: Articles
Clarification
In the last issue of the Lifeboat, the article titled Atlantic Evolution reported the closure of Atlantic College Lifeboat Station – and the college’s focus on lifeguarding skills.
It was not our intention to suggest there...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
LIFEBOATMAN ALONE ABOARD PILOT BOAT PLUCKS CREW TO SAFETY IN SEVERE GALE Three rescued from tug after night collision with coaster Shane Coleman, Second Coxswain/Mechanic of the Lowestoft lifeboat has been awarded the RNLI's Bronze medal...
Category: Services
Balder
During the night of the 23rd May, the same life-boat went off and saved from de- struction the Swedish barque Balder, which had struck on the north part of the Has- borough Sands. Upon the vessel stranding, some Palling beachmen, two fishing...
Julia
The schooner Julia, of and for Lowestoft, from Hartlepool, with a cargo of coal, and having a crew of four men, was seen to take the ground on the North part of the Barber Sand, at about 4.30 M. on the 25th of February, during N.E. by E....
Ebor
HARWICH.—On the 19th February a telephone message was received from the Gunfleet Lighthouse and signals were shown by the Sunk Light-vessel. At 8.45 A.M. the Life-boat Springwell put out, and was towed by the steam-tug Harwich to the Sunk,...
Young England
On the 20th Oct., about 10.30 P.M., it then blowing a mode- rate gale at S.S.W. with a very heavy sea on, a man swam ashore about a mile north of Winterton Life-boat Station. An over- turned ship's boat lay beating about in the surf not...
Liffey
PORTHOUSTOCK. — Intimation having been received that a large steamer had struck on the Levellers Bocks, at about two o'clock on the morning of the 27th January, the erew of the Life-boat Charlotte were summoned, the boat waslaunched, and...