LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cut Off By the Tide. Two Bronze Medals for Clovelly Life-Boatmen
ON the evening of the 30th of August, 1948, two young Americans were swimming and wading round Baggy Point in North Devon. One of them was the son of Mr. Negley Farson, the author, the other was a photographer on the staff of the American...
Category: Services
Al Rosanjo
THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Dover lifeboat station received a call from HM Coastguard at 1649 on Saturday May 12, 1979, telling him that a motor boat had been reported aground but that the sighting was being checked. Just over an hour later,...
The Ex-Motor Fishing Vessel Willroy
Padstow, Cornwall.—At 3.43 in the afternoon of the 3rd of June, 1952, the Trevose Head coastguard tele- phoned that the s.s. British Supremacy had wirelessed that she had taken in tow the ex-motor fishing vessel Will- roy, of Fleetwood, with...
International Boat Show
THE Royal National Life-boat Institution exhibited at the International Boat Show at Earl's Court, London, on 3rd-13th January, 1973, the first of a new type of life-boat. She was a Rother class boat (see photograph above), in direct...
Category: Articles
The Heroes of the Life-Boat
THERE'S a brave and gallant host Worthy of Britannia's boast, Lions of our sea-girt coast When there's danger on the sea.
Midst the tempest's blaze and blare, Thunder roll and lightning glare, They have...
Category: Poetry
Welcome
Phil, interviewed on page 18, lost his son to the sea. Now he has pledged his support for the RNLI’s Respect the Water campaign, which this year will reach more people than ever. It wasn’t easy for Phil to talk about the tragedy that has hit...
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Dungeness, Kent.—At 5.23 on the afternoon of the 12th of September, 1956, the Rye police reported that there was a young girl in the sea off Camber. At 5.35 the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched. The sea was choppy, there was a...
Additional Life-Boat Stations and New Boats
FOWEY, CORNWALL.—A life-boat has been recently stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION at Polkerris, near Fowey, the cost of the same and of a substantial boat-house being defrayed chiefly by WILLIAM RASHLEIGH, Esq., J. F. DULLER,...
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GIRL ON CLIFF Douglas, Isle of Man. At 8.40 p.m.
on 25th May, 1964, the Ramsey coastguard told the honorary secretary that the police had reported that a girl had climbed down a cliff below the entrance to Howstrake holiday...
Prizes Galore at the Mermaid Ball
This masterpiece of chocolate confectionery floating on a sea of blue icing and donated by Thorntons, was just one of many prizes in a 'short odds' raffle held during the 1989 Lifeboat and Mermaid Ball which was held at the London... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs