LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
On distant shores ...
The golden sands of The Gambia wasn’t a place where proud RNLI supporter Robert Painter expected to find lifeguards flying our flag …
'My wife and I have recently returned from The Gambia...
Category: Articles
A Yacht
Three snatched from wave-swept rock using boarding boat The Director of the RNLI has written to Alderney lifeboat station to congratulate coxswain Stephen Shaw and his crew on the excellent teamwork shown during a service by the...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WHITBY.—The Whitby No. 2. Life-boat was rapidly becoming unfit for further ser- vice, and it has been replaced by another 8-oared boat, 30 feet long, and 7 feet -t inches wide, which was forwarded to the station, with a transporting-carriage...
Category: Articles
None (17)
CUT OFF BY THE TIDE Holyhead, Anglesey.—Just after mid- day on the 4th of May, 1947, the coast- guard reported that two men had been cut off by the rising tide at Forth Towyn. and the motor life-boat A.E.D.
left her...
Books
• THERE HAVE BEEN many lifeboat histories produced by Jeff Morris in recent years, all of which have been meticulously researched and illustrated.
The Story of the Hoylake and West Kirby Lifeboats is no exception. He traces...
Category: Articles
Jenny
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 8.12 on the evening of the 22nd of April, 1957, the life-boat coxswain was told that a fishing vessel appeared to be in diffi- culties three miles north-west of Hilbre Island. He went to the boathouse and through a...
An Aeroplane (37)
OCTOBER 21ST. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY. About 1.15 in the morning the coastguard sent a message to the coxswain that an aeroplane wasin distress, burning red flares, off Dulas Island, some three miles to the west.
The coxswain...
National Sponsored Swim 197Ii72 Made £20286 for Rnli Funds on May 10 Norman Crumble Chairman Cac Presented a Plaque to Ernest Warrington MBE
National sponsored swim 197II72 made £20,286for RNLl funds. On May 10 Norman Crumble, chairman CAC, presented a plaque to Ernest Warrington, MBE, president ASA, in gratitude for the generous support of the Amateur Swimming Association... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
July (1)
RYE, SUSSEX. Shortly after two in the afternoon of the 5th of March, 1944, two men in the fishing boat F.E.152 were trawling in Rye Bay. They heard a burst of machine-gun fire from a Thunderbolt aeroplane, and saw the pilot bale out. The sea...
Category: Services
Penthesilea (1)
BRAUNTON AND APPLEDORE, DEVON.— On the 11th of January, the ship Penthesilea, of Liverpool, manned by a crew of 30 hands all told, left Newport, Monmouthshire, laden with coal, for the Mauritius. She was towed down the Bristol Channel and...