LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Some Ways of Raising Money
Himley Hall SC, a small family sailing club with its waters in beautiful Himley Park, West Midlands, held a 24-hour sponsored race over a May weekend in both 1976 and 1977. Twelve teams took part in the first year and ten the second, with...
Category: Donations
Sarah
JOHNSHAVEN.—Between 1 and 2 o'clock on the morning of the 7th February, a small steamer, the Sarah, of Montrose, bound from Bridgeness for Fraserburgh with coal, was observed by the watch at the coastguard station to be dangerously near...
Dagon
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—On the morning of the 8th September the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore at Dundonnie Head, about one mile south of Buchan-ness lighthouse.
A moderate south gale was blowing, with a...
Three special station birthdays
Three lifeboat crews are celebrating proud RNLI histories this year, as Fowey, Fleetwood and The Lizard stations turn 150.
One remarkable rescue for Fowey came in 1865, with 13 people saved from the barque Dryden and 9...
Category: Articles
Clifton, of Gloucester
Early in the morning of the 12th March, the schooner Clifton, of Glou- cester, ran ashore on the south side of the bar at the entrance to Bideford harbour, the wind blowing hard from the west at the time. At daylight the crew, 6 in number,...
Awards to Coxswains and Members of Life-Boat Crews
To SIDNEY H. B. PAGE, on his retirement, after serving for 21J years as coxswain, G months as second coxswain and 1 year as bowman of the Southend-on-Sea life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, a gratuity and a retirement...
Category: Awards
Rnli News
NEWS POINT FIRST AMONG EQUALS Those who find themselves explaining how the RNLI operates, how it is organised and how it is funded are very often asked, "What do other countries do? Is the RNLI unique?". The answer could have been...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (12)
JULY 17TH. - CLACTON-ON-SEA, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A message had been received from the coasttake guard that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea between Walton pier and Gunfleet Lighthouse and that a man had come down from it by...
Constellation Aircraft Disaster
ON the 14th of August, 1958, a disastrous accident occurred when a K.L.M.
Constellation aircraft crashed in the Atlantic more than 80 miles from the west-coast of Ireland. Ninety-nine people lost their lives. Life-boats...
Category: Services
Photography at Sea – techniques for capturing amazing photographs afloat
Photography at Sea – techniques for capturing amazing photographs afloat
by Patrick Roach and Fred Barter
Review by Tony Roddam
Patrick Roach learned his craft in the swinging sixties at the...
Category: Articles