LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hair-Raising Funds!
Gary Whiting from Mirfield in West Yorkshire, turned heads earlier this year with a hair-brained scheme to raise money for charity - he had half of his beard and moustache shaved off! Gary, went about his daily routine for ten days before... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Blossom
CRUDEN.—On the 27th February, the Life-boat Peep o' Day was launched about 3.30 A.M., and rescued the crew, consisting of 3 men, from the schooner Blossom, of Aberdeen. This vessel had missed stays in the bay, and bad gone ashore on...
Decks Awash In a Near Gale Padstow's 48' 6" Oakley Lifeboat James and Catherine Macfarlane Tows Home the 90' Beam Fishing Trawler Elizabeth Ann Webster Which Ha
Decks awash in a near gale, Padstow's 48' 6" Oakley lifeboat, James and Catherine Macfarlane, tows home the 90' beam fishing trawler, Elizabeth Ann Webster, which had broken down off Tintagel Head. Photograph by courtesy of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Cobles
Only a few of the fishing cobles belonging to Newbiggin went out to sea on the 26th March as the sea was rough.
Towards low tide the landing became dangerous and some of them had diffi- culty in coming in. As there were...
Cairnsmore
Fishermen taken off THE COXSWAIN of Angle lifeboat was informed at 0007 on Friday December 1, 1978, that the 39ft fishing boat Cairnsmore, on passage to Scotland, was in trouble five miles south west of the Hats and Barrels. Maroons were...
Fishing Cobles
STAITHES, YORKSHIRE. — The cobles which were out fishing on the afternoon of the 4th January were overtaken by a thick fog and at about 3.30 a boat with a crew of five men out off from the shore to assist them. At 5.15, as darkness was...
Dobell
— At 5.30 P.M. on 25th September it was reported to the Honorary Secretary that the little fishing smack Dobell, of Carnarvon, was out in Barmouth Bay and was making for port, the weather having suddenly become squally and boisterous, and...
Munin, of Bergen
Wick.
ON the afternoon of 29th August news was received at Wick of a vessel, found later to be the steamer Munin, of Bergen,Norway, which had gone ashore on the east side of North Ronaldshay, the northernmost island of the...
The Life-Boat
The night was dark and stormy, The waves were rough and high ; A gallant ship was tossing,— Her crew were like to die.
But see! they've launched the life-boat; 'Tis manned by Britons brave, Who risk their life for...
Category: Poetry
Harwich and Dovercourt Station
Standing in Harwich's Atlantic 21 lifeboat are (I to r) Captain Richard Coolen, honorary secretary of Harwich and Dovercourt station branch, Eric Darvill, chairman of High Wycombe Round Table, with Geoff Rysdale, the immediate past... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs