LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coastal Life
COAstAL LIfe Not in my backyard? Windfarms are springing up all around the British Isles, but most are offshore, away from the controversy blowing in the countryside. Bethany Hope investigates their impact Devotees of the modern equivalent...
Category: Articles
A Smal Boat
Small boat swamped ON MONDAY EVENING, AugUSt 18, 1975, the honorary secretary of Whitby lifeboat station was informed by Whitby Coastguard that a small boat which they had had under observation had been swamped a quarter of a mile to seaward...
Dutch Awards to Torbay Crew
THE Queen of the Netherlands awarded the silver medal of humane assistance to ex-Coxswain H. O. Thomas of Torbay for the rescue of a man from a Dutch lighter on the 7th of December, 1959. The other seven members of the crew were each awarded...
Category: Awards
Lyra
HAUXLEY.—The Life-boat Algernon and Eleanor was launched at 1.30 P.M. on the 14th February to the assistance of the fishing coble Lyra, of Newbiggin, which was in distress in a gale from the W.S.W.
and a heavy sea. The boat...
St. Stephen
THREE LIFE-BOATS TO A TRAWLER'S HELP Peterhead, and Fraserburgh, Aberdeen- shire, and Buckie, Banffshire.—At 3.5 in the afternoon of Jaimavy 6th, 1947, the coastguard telephoned to the Peterhead life-boat that the steam trawler St....
Fishing Boats
ON the morning of 24th March, a very cold morning, with a heavy sea running, the Boulmer Life-boat was launched to stand by seven returning fishing boats of Craster, which, owing to the heavy seas breaking right across the Bar, would find it...
None (4)
At 12.48 p.m. on 26th June, 1966, information was received that an elderly woman had fallen over Arrowan cliff, four miles west of Coverack, and the assistance of the life-boat was required as the position could not be approached from the...
Fishing Cobles (4)
On the morning of the 26th December, twelve of the fishing cobles proceeded to the fishing ground at about 4.30 A.M.
A little before ten o'clock a very heavy S.E. wind arose, and the sea increased, making the landing...
Your Letters
History of the membership scheme Sir - It is evident from your columns that there is some confusion as to the origins of the membership scheme. Consequently I feel it is time to put the record straight.
At its March meeting...
Category: Correspondence
December
Launches 49 Lives rescued 252
DECEMBER 2ND. - MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.
During the morning a wireless message was received at Holyhead, and telephoned to Moelfre, asking for a life-boat to take a badly-injured...
Category: Services