LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
Local boat How does one 'sell' the lifeboat service? Our branch committee at Barrow-in-Furness believes that where you have a comparatively isolated community and a lifeboat station as well, you 'localise' the boat. There...
Category: Correspondence
An unexpected catch
When six teenagers fished into the early hours of a Summer morning, they suddenly became caught themselves
The group, aged 14–16, began night fishing from disused oyster beds at the north end of Langstone Harbour,...
Category: Articles
Erna
The German Schooner Erna, belonging to Bremen, drove ashore on Drake's Island in Plymouth Sound on the night of the 21st February, during a S.S.E. gale which at times attained the violence of a hurricane. The vessel became a total wreck,...
Book Corner
9 In Captain George Manby, the inventor of the line-throwing mortar, Kenneth VValthew has found an excellent subject for a lively and colourful biography (From Rock and Tempest, Geoffrey Bles, £1.90/38s.). Manby was one of those...
Category: Articles
Kantule
Cromarty.—At 10.30 in the morning, on the 3rd of December, 1950, the Wick Radio station telephoned that a vessel, off the Cromarty Sutors had asked for help. At 10.45 the life-boat James Macfee was launched. There was a heavy swell with a...
A Small Boat
On the afternoon of the 13th January the coxswain of the motor life-boat Margaret Harker Smith was warned that a small boat, manned by three youths, had gone out of the harbour. A moderate N.W.
breeze was blowing, and a...
Helen Mary (1)
Appledore, and Clovelly, Devon.—-During the afternoon of the 7th August, 1937, signals were seen coming from a small motor yacht oft Westward Ho, A moderate N.N. W. breeze was blowing, with a smooth to moderate sea. The Appledore motor...
Evening Star
At about 7 o'clock on the following morning flares were shown by a vessel in distress in Corton Eoads. The wind was blowing from the N.E., and the sea was rough at the time. The Lowestoft Lifeboat proceeded to her assistance, and found...
97th Lottery
97th lottery A brand new Suzuki Ignis was the first prize in the spring Lifeboat Lottery, thanks to Britannia Rescue who kindly donated the car. The winning tickets were picked by lifeboat crew members and representatives of Suzuki and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs