LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Furry Monster Spotted on Torbay Lifeboat
Friendly Mascot Morris from the Landscove and St Mary's Bay holiday complexes was a special visitor to the Torbay lifeboat.
From April to October, the Brixham lifeboat guild sells grand draw tickets at the holiday... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sailing Boat (1)
10th November. A sailing boat with twenty men and women on board, mostly agricultural workers returning from the Scottish potato harvest, put off from Burtonport for Arran Island at about 6 P.M. on the 9th November. There was a moderate but...
John Nicholson
John Nicholson MBE, coxswain of New Brighton lifeboat from 1939 to 1954. He first joined Hoylake crew in 1911 and then the New Brighton crew in 1921, and was second coxswain of No. 2 boat from 1922 to 1932 and No. 1 boat from 1932 to 1938....
Category: Obituaries
Two Steam Drifters and Five Motor Boats
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 6.15 A.M.
on the 28th March, 1939, a message was received from the Anstruther coastguard that there was a heavy swell at the harbour entrance and that the fishing fleet was returning. A moderate...
Letters And Reader Information
Letters To add your opinion, write to The Editor at RNLI Headquarters or email [email protected] Dear Editor My father and I witnessed the whole incident reported in ‘Between a rock and an angry sea’ in the LifeboatWinter...
Category: Correspondence
Kerry
Running into danger ON THE AFTERNOON of Friday September 11, 1981, the 26ft yacht Kerry left Douglas, Isle of Man, bound for Glasson Dock, Lancaster, crewed by two men.
Although the weather and visibility were good, there...
A Dinghy (12)
Walton & Frinton, Essex - At 3.25 p.m. on 3rd July, 1967, it was learnt that a dinghy had capsized a quarter of a mile off Walton pier and that another dinghy was trying to right her. The life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary...
Power-Driven Life-Boats
IT may be that the great war that is now raging will be known to posterity as the " Petrol War," from the fact that petrol engines have been employed for warlike purposes to an extent that was never even dreamed of by those who...
Category: Articles
Midley Belle
Rising winds RYE AUXILIARY COASTGUARD requested the launch of Rye Harbour lifeboat at 1350 on Saturday October 3 following reports that the 24ft ketch Midley Belle was heading out to sea. It was a squally afternoon with moderate confused...
Serenity
Caister, Norfolk.—At ten o'clock in the morning of the 29th of February, 1952, the coastguard reported that a vessel had gone aground off Waxham, and at 10.15 the life-boat Jose Neville was launched. The sea was calm, with a fresh...