LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fowey: the Champagne Bottle Breaks As Mr Paul Chilcott Names the 33Ft Brede Class Lifeboat Rnlb Leonore Chilcott Photograph By Courtesy of Harry and Billy Graeme
Fowey: The champagne bottle breaks as Mr Paul Chilcott names the 33ft Brede class lifeboat RNLB Leonore Chilcott. photograph by courtesy of Harry and Billy Graeme. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Long In the Shorts
In September John Cook, honorary secretary of Claygate branch, and Dave Avey from Brighton, undertook a long, 72-mile sponsored walk around the island of Malta.
Sponsored by Monarch Airlines the two friends raised... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Anna Henny
Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—At ten o'clock on the night of the 19th of November, 1952, the Redcar coastguard tele- phoned that he had fired a rocket to warn a vessel that she was heading for Salt Scar Rocks. The vessel did not seem to...
Canoes
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - On 17th March, 1966, the life-boat Dunleary II was to undertake a special exercise in connection with the opening of the Irish Boat Show at which the Institution was represented. Before the life-boat left her...
Gonslave, of Nantes
On the 8th March, 1859, the French brigantine Gonscdve, of Nantes, got embayed off Padstow, and, on making for the harbour, was caught by the eddy winds at the entrance, and driven by the tide and heavy sea on to the Doombar Sand, when her...
Elena R
NOV. 22ND. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET.
At 11.25 P.M. a message was received from the Wyke Regis coastguard that a vessel had been sunk by enemy action near the Shambles Light-vessel. A strong S.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea...
Two Sisters (1)
JANUARY 5TH AND 6TH. - NEWBIGGIN, AND NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 5.5 P .M. the coast-guard reported to the Newbiggin station that the sixteen-feet fishing boat Two Sisters, of Newbiggin, had not returned. An...
No. 1067
FEBRUARY 8TH - 9TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
At nine at night the coastguard telephoned that a vessel with her engine broken down was lying to the north-west of Buckie, and at 9.30 the motor life-boat K.B.M. was launched. A...
LIFEBOAT LOTTERY
Reverend David Mumford of Surrey was delighted to scoop the £5,000 first prize in the Spring 2010 Lifeboat Lottery. The model boat enthusiast, who has constructed an entire fleet of 136 miniature craft, said:
Category: Articles
A Dinghy (4)
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 6.15 on the evening of the 20th of August, 1957, a message was received from the RoyalUlster Constabulary barracks that a small boat with three men on board was missing at Ballywhiskin,...