LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bill's Brownies
Bill Coleman, Leamington Spa vice chairman, recently gave a talk on the lifeboat service to the 3rd Warwick (St. Nicholas) Brownie pack.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
1991 Fa B 3 Prototype (Right)
It may be hard to believe, but the same self-righting principle applies to these two lifeboats, separated by more than 125 years of development. The sails and oars may have given way to turbocharged diesels, but the raised fore-and-aft boxes... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs D.E. Fison,
Mrs D.E. Fison, who generously helped to defray the cost of the Harwich lifeboat John Fison..
Category: Obituaries
Water Lily
MARCH 8TH. - MARGATE, KENT. Just after 5 p.m. the coastguard reported that the local fishing boat Water Lily, which could be seen about three miles north of Margate pier, appeared to be in trouble with her engine, and the motor life-boat The...
Lachinedoc, of Panama
OCTOBER 18TH. - FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 5.7 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities at Milford Haven had reported a four-masted steamer drifting towards the rocks. Her position was given...
Provider
DECEMBER 17TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 10.30 in the morning the coastguard reported that the sea was rising and that the coble Provider was still at sea. At 11.15 the motor life-boat Augustus and Laura was launched....
Tourist Tangle
The morning of 1 June was sunny and calm – the perfect day for a sightseeing trip around Coquet Island bird reserve.
Amble’s lifeboats, the Mersey class The Four Boys and D class Rosemary Palmer, were called out at 11am to...
Category: Articles
Fifty Medals for Gallantry (4)
On the 14th October, 1939, the Walton and Frinton life-boat rescued the crew of three of the barge Estrel, of London.
COXSWAIN THOMAS H. BLOOM was awarded the silver medal.
SECOND COXSWAIN WALTER J....
Category: Articles
Pumping power
13 February: This catamaran was holed on rocks, and her owner was struggling with the ingress of water with his own pump. Sunderland lifeboat crew were called upon to help, and launched both lifeboats – D class...
Category: Articles
Sinking speed boat
7 July: Tower, London Lifeboat crew members saved four lives with minutes to spare when a speedboat sank on the Thames just south of the Millennium Bridge. Unable to stop the water rushing in, the group made an...
Category: Articles