LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Laity F. (1)
Tug on fire THAMES COASTGUARD informed Southend- on-Sea lifeboat station at 1130 on Saturday March 21, 1981. that the tug Laity Fwas on fire near No 3 Sea Reach Buoy. The crew assembled and took the transport down Southend Pier and at 1148...
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
IP one can judge by the energy and " push " which have during the last few months been exercised by our Life-boat Saturday Fund friends up and down the country, excellent financial results should be achieved. The summer is...
Category: Articles
Provider
Whitby, Yorkshire On the 13th January the Whitby motor fishing vessel Provider went to Bridlington for repairs to her capstan. Nothing was heard of her all day and, as the sea was making, enquiries were madeat 9.30 P.M. It was learnt that...
The S.S. Mango
SELSEY, SUSSEX, and BEAIBRIDOE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The Selsey Motor Life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched in a S.S.W. gale with a rough sea at 3 A.M. on the 10th January in response to red flares from a position about six miles ...
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
Feature: Come See the Show
By the time this issue of the Lifeboat reaches you, the Schroders London International Boat Show 2004 will already be in full swing. This year's event, which runs from 8-18 January, is special for several reasons.
Not...
Category: Articles
Rescued from a Danish Steamer
Miss Anne Lise Verndal and her mother. Twenty-seven in all were rescued by the Anstruther motor life-boat. - View image in PDF
(See opposite page.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gazelle
Plymouth, Devon ; and Fowey, Corn- wall. At 4.42 on the afternoon of the 18th of March, 1960, the signal station at Longroom informed the honorary secretary of the Plymouth life-boatstation of a report received from the pilot cutter. This...
'Blue Peter' Appeal
In the children's programme 'Blue Peter' on B.B.C. television on 8th June an appeal was made to help provide replacement rescue craft for the four 'Blue Peter' inshore life-boats which are stationed at Littlehampton,...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (80)
OCTOBER 30TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 6.49 A.M. the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea about two miles east of Sheringham, and a few minutes later the coastguard rang up again to say that he...