LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Postage Paid:
Postage paid: Hoylake postmaster, Mr Thorley, seems stuck on one of his postmen, Steve McGowan who is also a crew member of the Hoylake lifeboat. But rather than tear him off a strip, it's several sheets to the wind! To mark the issue of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Golden Anniversary
In November Southend lifeboat station celebrated the 50th anniversary of its first Christmas crew dinner. The event attracted some 500 guests to the Cliff Pavilion, Southend and raised £6.130 for lifeboat funds.
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Category: Photographs
Military Cutbacks!
Thought you might be interested in this one for the next issue of the Lifeboat magazine.
We've heard of military cutbacks but this takes the biscuit. A kite assisted rescue helicopter.
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Category: Photographs
Aridity (1)
OCTOBER 2lST. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. The Walton coastguard reported a message, from Light-vessel No. 89, that a vessel was ashore three and a half miles to the S.E., but the life-boat found that the vessel was the m.v. Aridity, to...
A Small Sailing Boat
APRIL 29TH. - POOLBEG, CO. DUBLIN.
At 6.50 in the evening a message was received from the harbour master at Dun Laoghaire that a small sailing boat off Poolbeg needed help. A strong north-west breeze was blowing, with a...
Rosedene
DECEMBER 4TH. - SEAHAM, DURHAM.
About 4.40 A.M. the coastguard reported a vessel aground at Hawthorne Point, two miles south of Seaham coastguard look-out.A light S.W. wind was blowing, with a ground swell, and the weather...
Obituary
WE regret to report the death from wounds of SERGEANT CHARLES DIXON, assistant messenger at the house of the Institution. Sergeant Dixon was a Reservist of the Guards and was called up at the outbreak of war. He was twice wounded, the second...
Category: Obituaries
Swamped in rough seas
3 June: In high winds and rough seas, a dismasted yacht drifted towards the dangerous cliffs and tidal race of St Alban’s Head, Dorset. The yacht had been swamped and her cockpit filled with water. Swanage’s...
Category: Articles
A Curragh
AUG. 1ST. - GALWAY BAY, GALWAY.
At 6 P.M. a message was received from Inishere that a Connemara boatman had reported that he had passed an upturned curragh half a mile north of Sandhead. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing,...
Eyemouth: REPRESENTING THE RNLI
Three members of Eyemouth Lifeboat Station represented the RNLI at the Annual National Service for Seafarers held at the end of 2015 at St Paul’s Cathedral, London. Each year, the RNLI nominates a different regional division to attend and...
Category: Articles