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Melfort

Date: Autumn 1981

Volume: 48

Issue: 478

Ketch founders RAMSEY COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Port St Mary lifeboat station at 0846 on Sunday May 17, 1981. that a yacht was aground at Derby Haven, east of Castletown; she was on the seaward side of the breakwater and...

Suited and booted

Date: Spring 2008

Volume: 61

Issue: 583

Many of London’s City workers unwind after a hard day with a trip to the gym or a drink in a bar. But sometimes when he leaves his office in Fenchurch Street David Taylor walks to a floating pier on the River Thames, pulls on a drysuit, and...

Category: Articles

FLASH FICTION WINNER

Date: Spring 2017

Volume: 61

Issue: 619 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2017

Thank you to all 131 entries in the Lifeboat winter flash fiction competition. We were delighted so many of you were inspired to put pen to paper. There was a clear winner – a favourite in the office and with flash fiction writer Eleanor...

Category: Articles

A Sailing Cruiser

Date: March 1968

Volume: 41

Issue: 423

Appledore, Devon - At noon on 29th September, 1967, while returning from an exercise with the R.A.F., the coxswain of the life-boat Louisa Anne Hawker saw a sailing cruiser ashore in broken water on the North Tail.

There...

In London for Their Awards

Date: June 1935

Volume: 29

Issue: 322

Second-Coxswain Robert C. Brown, of Swanage, Acting-Coxswain H. E. Pow, of Appledore, Motor-Mechanic C. T. Hornabrook, of Appledore. - View image in PDF

(See opposite page.) ,,... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Daybreak, Daymate and Sirious

Date: September 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 385

Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. On the afternoon of the 11th of May, 1958, the deputy honorary secretary and members of the life-boat crew were watching a yacht race, when a sudden squall sprang up, the weather grew worse, and several...

Pioneer

Date: November 1902

Volume: 18

Issue: 206

PETEBHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.—While the Coxswain of the Life-boat George Pickard was working in the Life-boat house during the afternoon of the 1st April, information was brought him that a vessel had gone ashore at Scotston Head. After...

Bearmania In Berwick

Date: Summer 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 549

In June, an entire weekend of 'beary' celebrations at Berwick raised an impressive £25,000 for charities - with the local lifeboat station receiving over £6,800 from the coffers.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Left: the Band Cosmic Sausages Entertain the Crowds

Date: Summer 2002

Volume: 58

Issue: 561

Left: The band Cosmic Sausages entertain the crowds. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Saving Life from Shipwreck In Denmark

Date: February 1884

Volume: 12

Issue: 131

THE Danish Life-saving service is con- centrated in one department under the Government, and not as in this country, divided between the Government and the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, a charitable society incorporated by Royal...

Category: Articles