LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mick Elstub (I) and Charlie Martin
Mick Elstub (I) and Charlie Martin (r), raised £500 for Flamborough lifeboat station by cycling from Doncaster to Flamborough, a distance of about 65 miles. While at the station Mick and Charlie met up with another fund raiser,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Polar Challenge
RNLI staff members Clare Kavanagh and Philippa Thompson, along with friend Jocie Robertson, have become the first all-female team to take on the Polar Challenge. The intrepid trio, dubbed the eg arctic angels, set off on their challenge, not... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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The Admiralty Trawler Cape Barracouta
OCT. 7TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. Two vessels were seen to be ashore on Goodwin Sands. One of them was the Admiralty trawler Cape Barracouta. A light E.N.E.
wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. At 1.45 A.M. the motor life-boat...
A Mustang Aeroplane (1)
OCTOBER 18TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
At 2.15 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a Mustang aeroplane had fallen into the sea about a mile from Chapel St. Leonards in a south-easterly direction. A...
Group Rescue
Two walkers out for a Saturday stroll on 5 December spotted a drifting oyster punt, with someone struggling in the water nearby.
When Falmouth lifeboat crew arrived, onboard their B class Eve Pank, they went into the water...
Category: Articles
A Torbay Silver Medal
In December, 1944, the life-boat at Torbay put out one night in torrential rain with a gale blowing to the help of a tug and a small vessel which she had in tow. The life-boat crew was two men short. So dark was the night that they could see...
Category: Articles
Lifting Craft No. 17
SEPTEMBER 3RD. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.
At 3 P.M. the naval authorities asked for the life-boat to be launched as lifting craft No. 17 had broken loose from moorings at the mouth of the harbour, where she was being used on...
The Mayors of London and the Life-Boat Service
BY the kindness of the Lord Mayor of London (Colonel Sir Alfred Louis Bower) a meeting was held at the Mansion House, on 13th January, at which the Mayors, Mayoresses and Town Clerks of the London Boroughs were invited to meet the Committee...
Category: Articles
Doggy paddle
19 July: Blackpool, Lancashire When a dog got into difficulty near Blackpool’s North Pier, the lifeboat crew launched in their D class and brought the pet to safety, much to the gratitude of its owner. As well as...
Category: Articles