LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Carriages
A MOST important adjunct to a coast life- boat is a carriage. It is not sufficient that the boat herself be of a superior description, capable of contending safely and successfully with that element in which her work has to be performed,...
Category: Articles
Sunglow
EXHAUSTED HOLIDAY-MAKERS FOUND IN BOAT Falmouth, Cornwall. At 7.14 on the evening of the 23rd May, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat had fired a red flare a mile and a half off...
Wellington
HOLYHEAD.—On the 28th March, at about 10 P.M., the Life-boat Thomas Fielden went off in reply to signals and found the schooner Wellington, of Carnarvon, in distress near the Breakwater. She had just been run into by another vessel, her...
Lifeboats In Action
One man's courageA young man swept into the sea and crushed against rocks would surely have died were it not for the brave actions of lifeboatman Fergal Walsh. With no regard for the risk to himself he plunged into the sea to save the...
Category: Services
A Brawn leader
He’s engineered glorious victories for the best drivers in the world – and now Ross Brawn’s formula for success is helping the RNLI build a new lifeboat.
Ross Brawn is no stranger to spending hours watching teams pit their...
Category: Articles
Letters
Beeching's medal At the Great Exhibition of 1851, one James Beeching was awarded the prize bronze medal for a self righting lifeboat.
It is thought this boat was the best if not the first self righting lifeboat to be...
Category: Correspondence
Corallo and Nopal Branco
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands, and The Lizard, Cornwall.—At eight o'clock on the morning of the 25th of March, 1957, it was reported that the motor vessels Corallo, of Trieste, and Nopal Branco, of Oslo, had been in collision and that...
A Yacht (1)
Lifeboatmen swim through surf to rescue sailor Port Talbot - South West Division Two crew members of the Port Talbot lifeboat station have received letters of thanks from the chief of operations after an unusual rescue which led to a life...
A Boat
MABLETHORPE, LINCOLNSHIRE.—WhDe a moderate wind was blowing from N., accompanied by a choppy sea, on the 6th March, a messenger arrived from Theddlethorpe and informed the coxswainof the Life-boat Heyicood that a small craft was drifting in...
Ocean Star
Valentia, and Fenit, Co. Kerry.—At 4.30 in the morning, on the 1st of August, 1950, the Valentia life-boat authorities received a telephone message from the Dingle Civic Guard. The local motor fishing vessel Ocean Star, with a crew of two,...