LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bolinders Company Ltd
When one MUST lead For the tough, tricky work of inshore rescue only the best in performance and the utmost in reliability are good enough.
That is why the Volvo Penta Aquamatic petrol and diesel engines fitted to the fast...
Category: Advertisement
Getting Pushy
Members of Bilton Cricket Club, Harrogate (left), completed a 65 mile bed push from their clubhouse to Filey lifeboat station during September.
Teams of six took turns to push and with an overnight stop half way they... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Little Dogged Determination...
The guests of honour at the annual RNLI coffee morning in Mayfield, East Sussex on 2 December 1995 were Keith Stevens, son of the stationmaster at Mayfield (in the days when they had a railway!) and now a member of the crew of the Selsey... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wing
Rescue a dramatic struggle becomesCold, tired and wet, the lone skipper of the yacht Wing had been without sleep for nearly two days when his yacht ran aground on the Long Sands, south of Skegness, on the morning of 5 May 2002. As rough seas...
Point Girl
Youghal, Co. Cork.—On the afternoon of the 30th November the motor lifeboat Laurana Sarah Blunt went out on exercise. When near Cape! Island, she saw two men in a small fishing boat, about a mile and a half S.E. of the island, waving for...
Jane Cookson,
April 1996 Jane Cookson, treasurer of Morpeth guild. Jane joined the committee in 1974 and became treasurer in 1976, a position she held until her death. Jane was awarded the Silver badge in 1991..
Category: Obituaries
Mrs Mabel Horspool,
Mrs Mabel Horspool, vice president of holyhead ladies lifeboat guild. Mrs Horspool joined the guild in 1952 and held several offices. She was awarded the Gold badge in 1992..
Category: Obituaries
Dijon and Peebles (2)
January storm BRONZE MEDALS AT 1137 ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1988 the Blackpool station honorary secretary, Mr Rowland Darbyshire was alerted by Liverpool Coastguard MRSC that a small vessel had fired red flares 11/4 miles north north west...
Edwin Basset, of Sunderland
On the 4th Feb.
the Cahore Life-boat Sir George Bowles, in answer to signals of distress shown from the barque Edwin Basset, of Sunderland, proceeded through a heavy sea and strong breeze to that vessel, from which, she...
Laurel
On the morn- ing of the 26th September, the fish- ing boat Laurel, of St. Abbs, was seen approaching harbour. As a strong N.E. gale was blowing with a very heavy sea and heavy rain, the Motor Life-boat Helen Smitton was launched at 10.30 A.M...