LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Aimee-Leone
Hastings, Sussex. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 13th August, 1961, news was received that the yacht Aimee-Leone was firing red flares about five hundred yards south-east of Hast- ings harbour. A fresh west-south- westerly wind was blowing...
Dear reader
My son was 4 at the time. We were living at Staithes, in North Yorkshire, and he started trying to swim across the harbour.
I shouted, but he didn’t come back – he just kept swimming. I jumped in fully clothed, reached him...
Category: Articles
None (1)
Training saves lives The benefits of the RNLI's training programme were demonstrated in August last year when crew members of Fenit lifeboat saved the life of a man using their newly gained resuscitation and cardiac massage skills. The...
Brooks & Bentley
Inspirational words of comfort and hope can be yours to treasure forevermore with this exquisite new diamond masterpiece from Brooks & Bentley Announcing The Footprints Diamond Eternity Ring, an enchanting new work of fine jewellery art...
Category: Advertisement
Lifeboat People
Dewi Rowlands, a launcher at St David's from 1942 and head launcher since 1963, is the third generation of his family to serve this lifeboat station.
When he retired in January, they had, between them, spanned the 97...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (48)
APRIL 24TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 6.30 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea one and a half miles north-east from the look-out, and at 6.40 P.M. the motor life-boat The Lord Southborough...
Healthy Direct,
Stop Snoring Now! Trial Price ONLY £9.99 Plus £1.99 P+P BUY 2 AND SAVE OVER £5 FREEPHONE YOUR ORDER TODAY ON: • Services. 0870841 II 14, lines open 8.30am - 5.30pm.
Are you one of the 30 million people in the...
Category: Advertisement
Stardust
Out-of-control casualty stopped by deliberately fouling propeller Wick lifeboat was involved in an unusual, hazardous and tragic service on 15/16 May 1993 when a helicopter spotted a vessel going round in circles at full power some 14 miles...
Five Honorary Workers
MRS. EDITH MA.NBY MRS. EDITH MANBY of Codsall, Staf- fordshire, died in February, 1951, at the age of nearly 86. For almost fifty years she had been an active life-boat worker in the Codsall area, and for some years was president of the...
Category: Obituaries
Rescue
Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues every year. Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the list below for more reports:
6 APPLEDORE | PAGE 10
7 PORTHTOWAN/PERRANPORTH | PAGE...
Category: Articles