LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Book for Review
THE first in a series of books which will undoubtedly become standard works on the history of the Cornish fife-boats. Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast by Cyril Noall and Grahame Farr (D. Bradford Barton, 2is.), is both an admirable...
Category: Articles
Chairman's Message
Chairman's Message The year 1969—the last year of the nineteen-sixties—has been another year of records in terms of services carried out, lives saved and revenue raised. It has also brought us tragedy and sadness, but not without adding...
Category: Articles
Unity
Shortly after 10 A.M. on the 1st October it was reported that the fishing coble Unity, of North Shields, which had left the Tyne early in the morning for the purpose of fishing, was missing. A strong E.N.E. gale having sprung up and the sea...
French Medals for Cromer
IN a whole gale on the 8th of July, 1948, the Cromer life-boat rescued the crew of sixteen men of the French collier Francois Tinier, of Dunkirk. For this rescue the French Government have awarded Coxswain H. T. Davies, the French Maritime...
Category: Medals
Government Banquet to the Delegates
ON 1st July His Majesty's Government gave a dinner at Lancaster House in honour of the Delegates to the Con- ference. The Right Hon. Sidney Webb, M.P., President of the Board of Trade, presided, supported by the Right...
Category: Articles
Parkside
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.— Signals of distress being shown by the brigantine Parkside, of Dundalk, on the 11th May, while a strong gale was blowing from W.N.W. with a heavy sea, the Life-boat Mary Isabella put off to her a-sistance at 9.55 A.M....
Mary Holland
On the morning of the j 4th October—a wild, stormy morning, | —the Charley Lloyd Life-boat of this sta- tion put out, and brought from the bri- gantine Mary Holland 7 men. Later on she hrought oh shore from the brig Eliza 5 men, besides a...
Aberdeen's Arun Class Bp Forties Escorts the Fishing Vessel Ceol-Na-Mara
Aberdeen's Arun class BP Forties escorts the fishing vessel Ceol-na-Mara into Aberdeen harbour after nearly seven hours at sea in gale force winds. - View image in PDF
photo - Jim Ferguson, Aberdeen RNLI. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pandora
During a whole E.N.E. gale and heavy snow showers on the evening of the 10th February, signals of distress were ob- served from the schooner Pandora, of Fraserburgh, which was lying at anchor in Scrabster Roads. The crew of the Life-boat...
A Kayak
On Sunday 11 June 2006, a man launched his flat-topped kayak at Perranporth in Cornwall in anticipation of an afternoon's fun. Soon however he was overwhelmed by 2m surf. It washed him, out of control, round into a rocky cove and threw...