LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE l ik bur-h. on the Suffolk coast, has always been famous for its lifeboatmen, the Cable family being particularly remembered. Then there are the Woods. And this quarter's cover is of Coxswain Reuben ood who was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sand Runner (1)
LISTING VESSEL Selsey, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.20 a.m. on 5th December, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary at Selsey that Niton radio station had received a distress call from the motor vessel Sand Runner, of Goole....
Hilary Anne
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 7.22 on the evening of the 14th of July, 1958,the Walton coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small cabin cruiser had broken down a quarter of a mile from the Mid Barrow...
Gripsholm
Douglas, Isle of Man - At 2.30 p.m.
on 5th May, 1966, the harbour master told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Gripsholm of Gothenburg had landed approximately 300 passengers at Port St. Mary in the morning and...
None
Capsize WEXFORD GARDA informed the honorary secretary of Kilmore Quay lifeboat station at 0115 on Saturday, December 24, 1977, that four red flares had been sighted off Bannow Bay towards the Saltees. At 0130 maroons were fired by the...
When God Comes Home from Sea
The life-boat skims the waters, the moon sails down the sky, The angry wind is blowing and the waves are mounting high; A line of clouds are floating above the ocean's breast, And every geabird falters with a feeling of...
Category: Poetry
None (5)
Hundreds of Lives Saved... probably When Poole's Atlantic launched at 2050 on Easter Saturday this year the crew thought they were searching for red flares.
Instead, when they arrived at the scene in a dark and...
None (8)
MATERNITY CASE At 6.40 a.m. on 23rd September, 1965, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that he had a maternity patient to send to hospital and as he could not obtain another suitable boat he asked for the life-boat. At 7.30...
Lifeboats in China
The RNLI has signed a new deal with the ChinaRescue and Salvage Bureau (CRS).
The deal builds on the agreement that has been in place between the two organisations for the past 5 years, which saw 20 ex-RNLI lifeboats make...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
A new member of the Fishponds branch of the R.N.L.I., Mr. Martin Rowe, organised a 'Guess my weight' competition, plus a skittles evening, at the Railway Hotel, Fishponds, near Bristol—and raised over...
Category: Donations