LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Zinita
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 13th of September, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht had anchored off the East pier, but that the anchor was dragging. The yacht signalled for help, and at 4.35 the life-boat...
More Than 20 Chartered Surveyors and Their Office Colleagues from Blackpool
More than 20 chartered surveyors and their office colleagues from Blackpool chose to raise money for the RNLI and their own benevolent fund by raising themselves a foot above the ground on stilts and completing a half-mile course down the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual Awards 1975
The Maud Smith Bequest for the outstanding act of lifesaving in 1975 has been awarded to Coxswain/Mechanic David Kennett of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, for the rescue on September 14 of the crew of five of the yacht Chayka of Ardgour. Coxswain...
Category: Awards
Obituary
IN the old church of Prestwich, Lanca- shire, Sir EDWARD TOOTALBROADHURST, Bt., D.L., J.P., Honorary Secretary of the Manchester and Salford Branch, was laid to rest on the 6th February last, and a crowded congregation testi- fied to the...
Category: Obituaries
Sydney Dacres
On the 16th February, a boat containing part of the crew of the ship Sydney Dacres, from San Francisco to Liverpool, which had been abandoned at sea, arrived at Knightstown, in the island of Valentia, Co. Kerry. Fourteen of the crew were...
Harmony
Exmouth, Devon - At 8.40 p.m. on 2nd August, 1966, a yacht was in distress off Brandy Head near Beer. There was fresh west south westerly breeze with moderate sea. It was high water. The lifeboat Cecil and Lilian Philpott, on temporary duty...
Team Philips
Team Philips is towed to safety Pete Goss' attempt to break the Jules Verne record for the fastest non-stop circumnavigation hit a stumbling block during sea trials on 29 March when his catamaran. Team Philips, lost part of her...
Futurity
Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—At 10.25 on the night of the 17th of January, 1952, the South Gare Lighthouse keeper telephoned that a ship had gone aground on the training wall in the mouth of the River Tees, and at eleven o'clock the life-boat...
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
FOR the last four months the Life-boat Saturday Committees and Ladies' Auxiliaries have been busily endeavour- ing to maintain in 1902 the grand record of net receipts obtained by the Fund throughout the United Kingdom last year for the...
Category: Articles
A Sea Balliol Aircraft
St. David's, Pembrokeshire.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 16th of March, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the Royal Naval Air Station at Brawdy had reported that a Sea Balliol aircraft had crashed into the sea two...