LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Naming Ceremony With a Difference
Barrow lifeboat Crew Member Dave Kell, a roofer, and his wife Samantha were delighted to christen their baby son, Jake, born 20 March 2002 at a private ceremony on the deck of the James Bibbyal Barrow lifeboat station.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Full Swing
Enthusiastic golfers in Wales raised £2,500 towards an inshore lifeboat at Flint.
Heavy showers were not enough to dampen the spirits of the 20 teams competing at Northop country park. The whole event, organised by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sailboard
Humane Society awards for crew members Hunstanton - East Division Two members of Hunstanton's lifeboat crew have received Royal Humane Society awards for rescuing a windsurfer - with the station's launching tractor.
Audacity (1)
New Quay, and Aberystwyth, Cardigan- shire.—At 9.23 in the morning of the 9th of January, 1952, the Fishguard coastguard telephoned the New Quay life-boat station that the tanker Audacity, of London, was in difficulties with a broken...
Idaho, of Bath U.S.
Early on the morning of the 13th Jan. intelligence was received that a vessel was shewing signals of distress off this place. On the Life-boat Alfred and'Ernest being taken to the spot it was found that the ship Idaho, of Bath, U.S.,...
The Atlantic 75
Hypalon coated nylon inflatable sponsons. All new boats are now orange.
Conical diaphram between sections allows some transfer of pressure if forward section is damaged and leaking.
Marine ply deck over...
Category: Articles
Our Heroes
"Tis a terrible night, and the seas run mountains high, The wind is howling fiercely, with a dark and sullen sky; Eyes are aching and blinded with the driving sleet and rain, And thoughts turn to those who are going out, who may never...
Category: Poetry
The Minesweeper Cape Comorin
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT WHITBY.
NOV. 12TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
About three-thirty in the morning the coastguard telephoned to the Whitby life-boat station that a vessel was ashore close under the cliffs...
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
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Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 13th of November, 1954, the police reported that a message had been received from the R.S.P.C.A. asking if the life-boat would put out to a heifer which had fallen over a cliff into Dulas...