LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (76)
OCTOBER 8TH. - SENNEN COVE, AND ST. IVES, CORNWALL. At 2.23 P .M.
information was received at Sennen Cove from the coastguard that an aeroplane was down in the sea two hundred yards off Pendeen Lighthouse, and that two men...
Hyake
At 9.50 A.M. on the 22nd October, the Life-boat of this Station, the People's Journal, No. 1, was launched for the purpose of saving the crew of the barque Eyack, of Langesund in Norway, which was wrecked north of Battray Head, a hard...
Casquet
YACHT TOWED AFTER ANCHOR CHAIN CLEARED Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 7.45 on the evening of the 18th June, 1962, the coastguard at Penmon informed the honorary secretary that an unidentified yacht was anchored about one mile south-by-east of the...
Leo
OCTOBER 20TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 4.25 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a red flare near Scotstoun Head had been reported from Rattray. Half an hour later it was reported that six red flares...
A Record Collecting Box
LAST December the Institution received from Mr. F. 0. Brown, of Bedford Park, London, a cheque for £28 10s., the amount which he had collected during the year in his Life-boat box. At the same time, he said that owing to ill- health...
Category: Articles
A Touch Of Brass Can Lead To So Much More
A touch of brass can lead to so much more The names of RNLI boats give tantalising hints of their origin. Here, Carol Waterkeyn takes the rare opportunity to meet the man behind one such name When news of a legacy arrives at RNLI...
Category: Articles
Weymouth:
Weymouth: On Friday March 2, 1984, the 68ft yacht Constellation was crossing Lyme Bay on passage from Humble to Falmouth when, the weather deteriorating, the north-westerly winds rose to storm force 10. She turned about to return to Hamble... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Snapper
JAN. 22ND. - POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET. At about noon in- formation was received through the coastguard that the motor launch Snapper, which was bound from Hamworthy to Southampton, was in difficulties off Boscombe Pier. A...
Hawfinch
FLEETWOOD TRAWLER AGROUND IN HEBRIDES Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. The honorary secretary received a message from the Stornoway coastguard at approximately 11.20 on the night of Thursday the 19th September, 1963, stating that a vessel had gone...
Cover Picture
Our cover photograph for the spring issue was taken by David Parker, one of the four people to whom, at the Boat Show, the Duke of Atholl presented statuettes of lifchoatmen for their outstanding service to the RNLI in the field of public... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs