LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
Silver Jubilee We were delighted to read about the present Wells' lifeboat in the winter issue of the journal and also to hear about the naming by Princess Margaret last November of Margate's new Rother lifeboat, Silver Jubilee...
Category: Correspondence
Julin
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 7.52 on the morning of the 9th of May, 1956, the coastguard telephoned to say that the motor vessel Julin, of Hamburg, had gone ashore in fog on Beachy Head ledge. At 8.10 the life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched....
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 3.45 on the afternoon of the 8th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that a boy was trapped in a cave at Point Giltar. There was a strong south-westerly wind with a moderate sea and a heavy...
A Raft Race Organised By Mr and Mrs C Horton for Moelfre Ladies' Guild Was a Highly Successful Event It Took Place on August 26 Flag Day £500 Was Raised
A raft race organised by Mr and Mrs C. Horton for Moelfre ladies' guild, was a highly successful event. It took place on August 26, flag day. £500 was raised.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Schooner (1)
DE C . 1 S T. - MARGATE, KENT. A schooner had been sunk by enemy action four miles away and the life-boat found only the masthead of the vessel and no sign of the crew. It was learned later that the crew had been rescued by another vessel.-...
Lytham-St.Anne's Sunday June 2 1985:
Lytham-St Anne's, Sunday June 2, 1985: the Reverend John Carlisle, chaplain of Lytham-St Anne's lifeboat station blesses with holy water the 47ft Watson class lifeboat, The Robert. The re-dedication ceremony for this lifeboat, newly... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Two inshore lifeboats save man cut off by tide A service by Redcar's Atlantic 21 and D class to a man cut off by the / x t i d e some five miles away from the station has earned Atlantic Crew member Tony Wild, D class helmsman Mark...
GIVE IT A GO: COASTAL FORAGING
All around us, ancient varieties of food are just waiting to be rediscovered. From leaves like samphire and sea spinach to seaweeds, blackberries, beech nuts and violets – you’ll be amazed at the abundance and...
Category: Articles
Zeus
Shortly before 10 P.M. on the 9th January the Norwegian steamer Zeus, bound from Havre to Burntisland in ballast,stranded about half a mile to the south of Flam- borough Head. Information of the casualty was telephoned to the cox- swain of...
A Bronze Medal Service at Blyth
ABOUT five in the evening of 23rd December, 1938, the coastguard rang up the life-boat station at Blyth, Northumberland, to report a ship, firing rockets and blowing her whistle, about three miles east of Newbiggin Point. At 5.15 the motor...
Category: Services