LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Your shout
Dear Editor
I wonder if you can pass on my good wishes to those three lifeguards who saved the lives of the 40 children and teachers on the beach with the disappearing sandbank. The Summer holidays would have been...
Category: Articles
Wroxham and District Branch
This magnificent knitted quilt bedspread is the creation of the ladies of Wroxham and District branch. /( caused £700 worth of raffle tickets to be sold for a chance to own it when the branch held a luncheon at the Norfolk Broads Yacht... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of Life-Boats
LYTHAM.—On the 13th December, 1859, the brigantine Robert and Henry, of Dundalk, ran ashore on the Horse Bank, at the entrance of the River Mersey; intelligence being conveyed to Lytham of the disaster, the Institution's life-boat at...
Category: Services
Hope Crest
ump passed to sinking fishing boat in gale and heavy seas Coxswain Albert Sutherland and the crew of the Fraserburgh lifeboat took over three hours to battle through the 10-12m seas and a full south easterly gale to reach the fishing vessel...
The Sumner Lifeboat Institution New Zealand Operates An Ex-Rnli 109M Liverpool Class Lifeboat Rescue Iii and a Fast Jet Inshore Boat Aid Ii When a Call-Out Com
The Sumner Lifeboat Institution, New Zealand, operates an ex-RNLI 10.9m Liverpool class lifeboat, Rescue III, and a fast jet inshore boat. Aid II. When a call-out comes, both lifeboats, a control tower and a mobile base in a Landrover are... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Your Letters
Famous five In May 1995 I was rescued by Swanage lifeboat, with a helicopter and an inshore Atlantic standing by, from a yacht aground on the Kimmeridge ledge off the coast of Dorset. The tide was falling and the yacht in danger of breaking...
Category: Correspondence
Marie Celine
Shortly after 5.30 A.M. on the 23rd July, the Coxswain had his attention called to a schooner which since daybreak had shown signs of being unmanageable, and as a strong S.S.W.
gale was blowing with a heavy sea run- ning,...
A Life-Boat Rescue
The full strength of the Atlantic seems now devoted to the destruction of the frail craft yet rocking on the submerged reef at the mouth of the Channel. The waves rush thunderingly to the attack like squadrons of heavy cavalry. They have...
Category: Articles
Samaritan
On the evening of the 20th August the coastguard telephoned that Gorton light-vessel was making signals indi- cating a ship in distress N.E. of the light-vessel. A light S.E. breeze was blowing and the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat...
Ships' Figureheads
SHIPS' figureheads, once-upon-a-time, were a common sight on land for, it was said, a ship in olden times without a figurehead was inconceivable.
In towns and villages by the sea they could be seen atop fishermen's...
Category: Articles