LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Tyne and helicopter work together to rescue four in heavy swell and gale The skill and determination of Second Coxswain/Mechanic John O'Donnell, of Arranmore's Tyne class lifeboat William Luckin , during a difficult eighthour service...
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Anger over hoax call Police and Coastguards hit out at a hoax caller after a long sea and air search of Cleethorpes seafront found nothing.
The operation was launched in bitter weather on the night of 25 February after...
Profiles
THE NAMES of famous lifeboatmen tend to stick to places along the coast. So, too, do the names of voluntary workers who over many years have left their mark on communities in the name of the lifeboat service. One of these is Mrs Kathleen...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat People
Laurie Prynn, who had been a member of Salcombe lifeboat crew for some 16 years, regularly, from 1961 to 1978, gave about ten lectures a year to cadet members of the Island Cruising Club; in all he must have talked to some 7,000 youngsters...
Category: Articles
Terry Weeden Takes a Camera to Walton and Frinton
Terry Weeden Takes A Camera To Walton and Frinton. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
About to Launch the Pulling and Sailing Life-Boat
About To Launch The Pulling and Sailing Life-Boat Firing Another Rocket. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Motor Boat
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—On the morning of the 1st of August, 1954, twelve members of an angling club went in a motor boat to the Calf of Man, but during the afternoon the weather grew worse and prevented them from returning. At three...
Harmony
— The schooner Harmony, of Preston, while bound from Garston to Wexford with a cargo of coal, ran ashore on the Black- water Bank, on the 24th April, and became a total wreck. Her signals of distress were observed by the Coast- guard, who...
Bookshelf
Lifeboat station histories On A Wave and A Prayer A History of the Youghal Lifeboat Station by Brendan O'Driscoll published by the author at CIR9.50 The port of Youghal (pronounced 'Yawl') on Ireland's beautiful southern...
Category: Articles
Hawke and Esther
ILFRACOMBE, DEVONSHIRE.—On the afternoon of the 12th January a message «/ O was received stating that two vessels had been in collision off Bull Point.
The crew of the Life-boat Co-operator No. 2 were promptly...