LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Keep Your Kit On
Earlier this year GMTV set up a nationwide search for the 'sexiest man in uniform'. Thousands of applications were received and the panel of judges had the tough task of whittling down the entrants to a final 12. One of the 12 was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Bather in difficulty HUMBER COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Mablethorpe lifeboat station at 1634 on Friday August 19, 1983, that a bather was in difficulty at Theddlethorpe, about three miles to the north of the station....
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Bullocks over cliff PORT ISAAC HONORARY SECRETARY received a request from HM Coastguard at 1606 on October 5, 1975, for the ILB to be launched to stand by teams attempting to rescue bullocks which had fallendown a cliff into a small cove at...
Maldon Little Ship Club's
Maldon Little Ship Club's sponsored row, an annual event, raised£1,681 for the Institution when it was held in January, 1985. Competitors braved sub-zero temperatures, ice floes and snow in order to complete the five-mile course on... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Silver Quest (1)
Five lifeboats in long search for lost fishermen Newcastle, Co. Down's, Oakley class lifeboat Jane Hay and Portaferry's Atlantic 21 Blue Peter V took part in long searches for the two crewmen from a fishing boat Silver Quest which...
Four Men Rescued from French Trawler
AT 5.50 a.m. on 2yth October, 1963, Valentia radio station informed the honorary secretary of the Youghal life- boat station, Commander B. Arbuth- not, that the French trawler Fee des Ondes was ashore in Youghal Bay. The position given,...
Category: Services
Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1936
THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition for elementary schools, has been held this year for the sixteenth time. The number of schools which took part was 2,175, a decrease on last year of 336.
Of this...
Category: Articles
Treacle for Oil
READERS of The Lifeboat know that oil has on various occasions been used with great effect in calming the rough water round a shipwrecked vessel. A paper on its value was read by the Chief Inspector of Life-boats at the International...
Category: Articles
M.F.V. Hatcliffe
Long tow FORTH COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Eyemouth lifeboat station at about 1235 on Friday March 25, 1983, that MFV Hatdiffe had broken down and was anchored 4V2 miles north east of St Abbs Head, seven miles north north...
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NOVEMBER 13TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
At 5.50 in the evening the coastguard reported a landing craft in need of help outside Wells harbour. A strong north-west wind was blowing, with a rough sea ; it was raining and visibility...