LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tough Choices
The lifeguards had been watching the kayakers for a while. It was raining on Pembrokeshire’s Newport Sands, and the only beach goers to keep an eye on were ‘hardcore’ dog walkers. Two men in single kayaks and two children, young girls in a...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Call In the Pentland
[In every number of The Life-boat there appears after an account of all the effective services in any month the statement: The following life-boats went out on service, but could find no ship in distress, were not needed or could do nothing....
Category: Services
Red House Lugger
Two lifeboats save six from yacht in storm conditions Aldeburgh and Lowestoft lifeboats were both involved in a long, arduous service in Storm Force winds and extremely heavy seas when they rescued six people from a yacht in the North Sea at...
Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting for 1908
THE RIGHT HON. LORD BALFOUR OF BURLEIGH, K.T., P.O., IN THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Chairman.
Seconded by ADMIRAL CHATFIELD, C.B.
1. That the Annual Report be adopted, printed, and...
Category: Meetings
Young Son Wayne Hutchings Aged 1'In Training' Last Year
Young son Wayne Hutchings, aged 1j,'in training' last year.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Silver Line, Boys Own, Quest and Margaret Ann
Flamborough, Yorkshire. Towards noon on the morning of the 26th of September, 1959, the weather grew worse at a time when several local fishing cobles were still at sea. The sea was rough, there was a strong northerly wind, and it was high...
Boys' Own and My Judith, Philander et al
NORTH-EAST DISTRICT Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 9.5 a.m.
on 22nd April, 1966, the assistant harbour master informed the honorary secretary that there were three cobles at sea, and the weather was deteriorating rapidly. He...
The Flamborough Cobles - Quest, Doreen May, Imperialist, and Boy's Own
DECEMBER 1ST. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. During the morning the wind increased, and the life-boat coxswain who was out fishing returned. By eleven o’clock a northerly gale was blowing, with a heavy sea and rain squalls, and as some of the...
The Milford Haven Steam Trawler Star of Don
OCTOBER 20TH. - GALWAY BAY. At 9.30 at night a life-boatman reported distress signals from the Milford Haven steam trawler Star of Don, which was in Killeany Bay to the south of the life-boat station. A strong north-east wind was blowing,...
Difficult Cliff Operation
A FRAMED letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., has been addressed to Coxswain C. J.
Crockford and crew of the Tenby, Pembrokeshire, life-boat for the...
Category: Services