LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 29 August 1989, show that during 1989: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 2,050 times (an average of more than 8 launches a day) More than 719 lives were saved (an average of 2 people...
Category: Articles
The Danish M.V. Bettann
Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 2.30 a.m. on I9th January, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Danish m.v. Bettann, which was anchored off St. Helens Fort, was firing red flares. The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched...
Formby
IN 1894 the Committee of Management decided to take over control, upkeep and maintenance of ail the Life-boat stations in Liverpool Bay which had hitherto been under the management of the Mersey Dock Board, the latter corporation undertaking...
Category: Articles
Geoff Mears Second Coxswain of Exmouth Lifeboat and Bill Parkhouse Area Manager of Watney's Push Over a Column of Two Pence Pieces at the Exeter Inn Topsha
Geoff Mears, second coxswain of Exmouth lifeboat, and Bill Parkhouse, area manager of Watney's, push over a column of two pence pieces at the Exeter Inn, Topsham.
Worth £515.96l/2 (£463.56 around the column in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Left) Lerwick's Arun Class
These dramatic photographs capture an incident on Friday 13 January 1989 when the fishing vessel Boy Andrew ran into a narrow gulley at Trebister Ness on Westray in the Shetlands. Lerwick's Arun Soldian took the crew off by Y boat and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Essex Lance
MARCH 13TH - 16TH. - CROMER, AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At about 2.35 P.M. information came to Cromer from the coastguard that a vessel, which seemed to be sinking, was about two and a half miles N.W. of Cromer, and was being...
Launch to a Dutch Ship
Ox the night of the 26th-27th of November, 1954, storms were raging all over the country, and at the Lizard most of the telephones were out of action and the village was without lighting. Among those whose telephones could not be used was...
Category: Services
Two Dinghies (1)
TWO CAPSIZED DINGHIES TAKEN IN TOW Falmouth, Cornwall. At 10.56 on the morning of the 24th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy had capsized a mile and a half off Nare Head, near Portscatho, and nine...
Weymouth Ladies' Guild
Weymouth ladies' guild raised £700 for branch funds at its annual wine and cheese party in the Springfield Room at Devenish Brewery on April I . The Mayor of Weymouth and Portland, Mrs Joyce Litschi, presented an oil painting of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (131)
SEPTEMBER 16TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 11.45 A.M. an aeroplane was seen to crash into the sea, and at 11.52 A.M. the motor life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched. A light northerly breeze was blowing and the sea was calm. Four...