LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The 1952 Christmas Card In Colour
From the painting "The Southsea Life-boat," by W L. Wyllie, R.A (See page 406).
Category: Drawings
Ashanti
JANUARY 16TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON. NORFOLK. At 1.51 P.M. the coastguard reported that a motor vessel was flying a distress signal south of Palling Look-out. A moderate N.E. gale was blowing, with a very heavy...
Samaritano
On the night of the 24th September, the services of this valuable life-boat were again called into requisition. At 11 P.M. on that night, the wind blowing a strong gale from N.E. with rain, guns were heard at Rams- gate, in the direction of...
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE twenty-eighth Annual Sleeting of this most important Society, established by the Bi iti-.h public to relieve Shipwrecked Sailors of all Nations, when cast upon the coasts of the United Kingdom, was held on the 8th May, at Willis's...
Category: Meetings
Left - Geoff Dalton of Cotswold Falconry Centre,
Left - Geoff Dalton of Cotswold Falconry Centre, shows Stan and a Storm Force member one of the wonderful birds of prey which were on display.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Yo-Ho-Ho and a Bottle of Rum:
Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum: forty-five sub-aqua diving pirates from Swindon took the plunge in style. They swam three and a half miles along the Thames, raising over £450 for the Institution.
The divers kept their... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Araxian
Man overboard A large crowd gathered at Filey on 2 July 2001 for the naming ceremony of the station's new D class lifeboat Rotary District 1120. They got rather more than they expected, however, when a full-scale rescue took place in...
Bookshelf
By Dr James A.Begg Published by Mercat Press ISBN 1841830542 Dr James A Begg dedicated this real-life account of dramatic search and rescue operations to 'all those engaged in search and rescue by air, land and...
Category: Articles
Lizard-Cadgwith Life-Boat Crew (in oilskins) With Men from the Yacht Kechedro
Lizard-Cadgwith Life-Boat Crew (In Oilskins) With Men From The Yacht Kechedro. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Regina
MONTROSE.—On the same day a very heavy sea was breaking on this coast and on the bar, and, as several steam and sailing vessels were awaiting the tide to enable them to enter the harbour, the Life-boatmen were on the look-out the whole of...