LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fundraising In Disguise..
Over 150 mystery guests from al! over Gloucestershire enjoyed a masked ball in February, which raised an impressive £5,500 for the lifeboats.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To JOHN STOREY, after serving 44 years as a member of the Crew of the Newbiggin Life-boat, a Life-boatman's Certificate.
To GEORGE McLEOD, on his retirement, after serving 5 years as Coxswain of the Lossiemouth...
Category: Awards
Aeolian
Mersey takes four off sinking yacht in gale and heavy seas Coxswain Chris Haw of Swanage's 12m Mersey class lifeboat Robert Charles Brown has been awarded the Thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inscribed on Vellum for the...
No Simple Save
Injured and stranded on rocks at the bottom of a sheer cliff: for two fishermen there seemed to be no route to safety. But RNLI lifeguards and lifeboat crew found one …
Thursday 6 August 2009 was more than a typical busy...
Category: Articles
Willowbank
Stromness, Orkneys. At 8.20 on the evening of the 29th of February, 1960, the coxswain was told that a fishing boat, with two men on board, was overdue from lobster fishing. The honorary secretary was then informed by the coastguard that a...
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...
Emma
WELLS, NORFOLK.—On the 4th October the wind blew a gale from the N.E. during the day, accompanied by a heavy sea. The night came on very dark, but the gale slightly moderated. At about 10 o'clock a flare was observed, and the cr'ew...
September (1)
HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE. On the afternoon of the 30th June, 1941, two women with two small children were cut off by the rising tidebetween the baths and wooden jetty at Hoylake. The weather was fine and the sea calm. Their plight was seen from the...
Category: Services
Outlaw
Dragging anchor PORTLAND COASTGUARD received a call at 1530 on Saturday September 19, 1981, from the motor fishing vessel Outlaw saying that her engine had failed and she was dragging her anchor three miles west of St Albans Head. There was...
Janet and Tempter
NORTH DEAL.—On the morning of the 27th March rockets and guns were fired by the Gull Lightship and large flares were burnt by a vessel in the direction of the Brake sand. The Life-boat Mary Somerville was launched at about 5 o'clock, a...