LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Breydon Merchant
Two lifeboats called to blazing ammunition ship Eastbourne and Shoreham lifeboats were launched on 24 February 1991 when fire swept through the 400-ton motor vessel Breydon Merchant some 12 miles SW of Newhaven.
The vessel...
Breydon Merchant (1)
Two lifeboats called to blazing ammunition ship Eastbourne and Shoreham lifeboats were launched on 24 February 1991 when fire swept through the 400-ton motor vessel Breydon Merchant some 12 miles SW of Newhaven.
The vessel...
Kelpie
PAKEFIELD.—The Life-boat Two Sisters, Mary and Hannah, was launched at 1.30 A.M. on the 9th Jan. last, and proceeded to the assistance of the brigantine Kelpie, of South Shields, bound from Hartlepool for Lowestoft with a cargo of coal,...
Meet Clifton Close Harmony
Meet Clifton Close Harmony whose successful fortnight's tour of Torbay last summer netted £1,357 for the RNLI. The octet, made up from Anthony Newman, teacher at Clifton College, and seven pupils, most still recovering from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Only a trained eye can see a rip current
Steve Wills, Beach Safety Manager, comments: Only a trained eye can see a rip current (experienced surfers actually use them to get out past waves) and normally only from high up, such as a cliff top. As we mentioned in the last issue, it is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Thousandth Member to Be Signed on at the London International Boat Show Last January Was Mr M S Bravery (R) With Him (I to R) Are Two of the Volunteer Enrolling Team Harold Appleton
The thousandth member to be signed on at the London International Boat Show last January was Mr M. S.
Bravery (r.). With him (I. to r.) are two of the volunteer enrolling team, Harold Appleton and Ian Taylor, Mrs Bravery... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Thomas Dawson of North Sunderland, who has been coxswain since September 1955. Before that he served as bowman for twelve years and second coxswain for more than four years. He first became a regular...
Category: Articles
A Rowing Boat
Valentia, Co. Kerry. — At 10 o'clock on the night of the 26th of June, 1949, the Cahirciveen Civic Guard reported a rowing boat, with a broken oar and one adult and four children on board, drifting seawards off Kells. Twenty minutes...
Good Hope and Good Design
WHITELINK BAY, ABERDEENSHIRE.— After a fine morning on the 5th January, a sudden and terrific squall was experienced, accompanied by a heavy shower of snow and sleet. Soon afterwards the coxswain of the Life-boat Three Brothers observed a...
The Longhope Life-Boat Disaster
As we were going to press we learnt with deep regret of the loss on the night of 18th March, 1969, of the Longhope, Orkneys, life-boat T.G.B., Coxswain Daniel Kirkpatrick, three times holder of the Institution's silver medal, and seven...
Category: Obituaries