LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Colchester District Branch
Surely the fittest postman in the east: David Clemens, 69, who is also vice-chairman of Colchester District branch, holds his London Marathon medal aloft as he goes on his delivery round in Marks Tey. He was one of a large team of runners in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Lottery
Mr and Mrs Cowan of Lanarkshire scooped first prize in the Winter 2009 Lifeboat Lottery and met the staff and volunteers of Troon Lifeboat Station when they picked up their prize of £5,000.
Mr Cowan says: ‘It’s all...
Category: Articles
A Dream of Home
I sat on a moss-covered rock, and gazed afar on the summer sea, Forgotten the world and its many cares, youth and hope came back to me.
When my heart was light and in happy mood I would ramble along the shore, And gaze on...
Category: Poetry
The Danger of Rubber Dinghies: A Correction
AN article was published in the last number of The Life-boat (Autumn, 1950) on the great danger of rubber dinghies, and a list was given of life-boats launched to their help in the summer of 1950. There were ten launches and eighteen lives...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy (1)
TWO BOYS TAKEN OFF DRIFTING BOAT New Brighton, Cheshire. At 7.45 on the evening of the 21st July, 1962, the police informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy with two boys on board was adrift off Brazil buoy as her engine had broken down....
A Pilot Boat
TEIGNMOUTH, DEVON.—A pilot boat, belonging to Teignmouth and manned by five men, was running for the harbour during a S.E. wind and a rough sea, at 11 A.M. on the 17th of March, when a broken sea suddenly overtook her and capsized her. The...
Mary Jane
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—While a moderate gale from the S.S.W. was blowing and in thick weather, the schooner Mary Jane, of and for Eamsey from Whitehaven with a cargo of coal, was seen labouring heavily, having her sailstorn and rendered...
Ellen & John and Margaret
At about 12.15 on the morning of the 21st Feb- ruary the schooner Ellen, of Arklow, when at anchor in the Caldy Roads, commenced to drift and was in danger of driving ashore. There was a whole gale blowing, veering from S.W. to W.N.W., with...
Lieut. Keppel H. Foote, R.N.
Lieut. Keppel H. Foote, R.N.. who died on 6th May at the age of eighty- five, had spent twenty-nine years of his life in the service of the Institu- tion. Born in 1850, he entered the navy in 1863, and served in it for eighteen years....
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Baron Ramsey
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 28th of January, 1957, a message was received from the owners of the S.S. Baron Ramsey, of Ardrossan, that she was lying in Ramsey Bay and had run short of stores because of...