LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Volunteers At Lymington Making Full Use Of Their New Boathouse
Volunteers at Lymington making full use of their new boathouse . - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Belarita and Mionne
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 6.35 oil the evening of the 26th of December, 1953, a man at Jethou reported that the local fishing boat Belarita, which had engine trouble, had left for St.
Sampson's in tow of the motor...
Ex-Coxswain Sydney J. Harris, of Gorleston
Mr. Sydney J. Harris, an ex-Coxswain of the Gorleston Life-boat, died on 20th June last at the age of seventy-one. In 1921, when he ceased to be Coxswain, he had served in that capacity for twenty-nine years, and had previously been second...
Category: Obituaries
Fishing Boats
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On the 23rd January the Newbiggin fishing-boats went to the fishing-ground at 4 A.M. A severe gale from the S.E. sprung up in the forenoon, and at 12.15 it became necessary to launch the Life-boat William,...
Couer de Lion
C class takes off two survivors before fishing boat breaks up Helmsman Ian McDowell of the St Bees lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze Medal for the leadership, skill and courage he displayed during a service to a fishing...
Calypso, of Wallasey, St. Trillo (3)
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire; Rhyl, Flintshire; Beaumaris and Moelfre, Anglesey - At 4 p.m. on 6th May, 1968, the coastguard informed the Llandudno honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser had broken down one mile west of Great Ormes Head...
Morvina
Stromness, Orkney.—On the morning of the 13th May the coastguard telephoned that a trawler was ashore on Kili Holm, in the Westray Firth, and that it was doubtful if local boats could establish communication. A moderate S.E. breeze was...
Women's Work By Ray Kipling
Women's Work . . .
. . . IN THE RNLI IT IS NEVER DONE.
by Ray Kipling DEPUTY PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER, RXLI '/ don't know where we would have been sometimes without the ladies. No credit would...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
HYTHE, KENT.—The NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat establishment in the neighbourhood of this place, the station being styled the Hythe, Sandgate, and Folkestone Life-boat Station. The boat is manned by a joint crew of...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy
Barmouth, Merionethshire. At 7.15 on the evening of the 3rd of April, 1959, the life-boat The Chieftain was returning to her station after a routine exercise when a message was received from the coastguard that a small dinghy was in...