LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Seafarer
On the 7th April four men and a woman put out for a trial run in a motor boat, the Seafarer. When about a mile offshore, in Weymouth bay, they ran out of petrol and their boat began to drift out to sea. One of the men swam ashore and gave...
Free range
With the recession, volcanic ash, and concerns for the environment, more people are taking holidays closer to home, especially to walk our coastal paths. What is the impact on the RNLI?
Waves crashing on a sandy beach or...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
There have been two Life-boats stationed for some years past near Drogheda—one on either side of the River Boyne— that on the northern side not having justified its existence, the opportunity has recently been taken of closing the station...
Category: Articles
Mr. B. J. Kirkham, of New Brighton
Mr. Benjamin James Kirkham, of New Brighton, who died on 9th January, at the age of seventy-four, was one of the oldest and most valued of the Institution's honorary workers.
He had been associated with it for some...
Category: Obituaries
Letters
Lifeboat development • I was interested to read Captain Williamson Jones' letter in THE LIFEBOAT for July (page 8). I would like to make the following points: 1—My article was a reprint from the Yachting World where it was headed...
Category: Correspondence
‘Dance Your Cares Away’ With These Fraggle Rock Character Keyrings
‘Dance your cares away’ with these Fraggle Rock character keyrings, available from Halifax and Bank of Scotland (HBOS) branches during november. Photo: Laura Wiltshire. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Scylla
Aldeburgh, Suffolk. At 8.23 on the morning of the 26th of July, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the yacht Scylla had been in collision with a French trawler. The yacht was moored alongside the Ship- wash...
A Fishing Boat (6)
NOVEMBER 24TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.
A fishing boat was overdue in bad weather, but she was towed to Skerries Harbour by another fishing boat. - Rewards £14 6s. 6d..
A Small Rowing Boat
— A telephone message was received from arnoustie coastguard station at 6.50 P.M. on the 12th August that a small rowing boat with one man on board was in danger of being swamped about three miles S.W. of the station. The weather was fine...
Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 14th of April, 1953, word was received by the coxswain that conditions at the harbour bar were dangerous. The local fishing boat Lead Us was still at sea, and at 2.40 the No. 1 life-boat...