LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Emulate, Honour, Random Harvest and Green Pastures (1)
TWO LIFE-BOATS ESCORT COBLES Amble, and Newbiggin, Northumberland.
On the morning of the 26th June, 1962, the weather deteriorated rapidly.
A north-north-easterly gale sprang up, and the sea became very...
Lifeboat People
In support of the City of Edinburgh lifeboat appeal to fund a 47ft Tyne class lifeboat for Fraserburgh, The Lord and Lady Provost of Edinburgh visited Fraserburgh on April 13 and were taken afloat in the station's present lifeboat, the...
Category: Articles
Valkyrian
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 9.9 on the night of the 16th of January, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that flashing lights had been seen between three and four miles south-by-west of Newhaven.
There was a fishing vessel in this...
Elaine Therese
FRENCH FISHING BOAT DRIFTING FOR TWO DAYS Weymouth, Dorset.—At 4.10 in the morning of the 18th of June, 1947, the coastguard reported that distress signals were being made seventeen miles south- east of Weymouth, and that Niton Radio Station...
Luana
Blackpool, Lancashire.—At 11.20 on the night of the 8th of May, 1948, the police telephoned that flares had been seen. At 11.45 what appeared to be oil burning on the water could be seen, and at 12.13 the motor life-boat Sarah Ann...
A British Aeroplane (1)
MAY 12TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
At about 6.42 P.M. the coastguard reported an explosion eight to ten miles N.E. by 1/2 E. of Buckie, and the motor life-boat K.B.M.
was launched at 7.9 P.M. A strong...
Stevonia (1)
On the afternoon of the 8th of January, 1956, the Humber and Bridlington life-boats put out to the help of the motor vessel Stevonia, of Goole. Conditions at sea were such that the Committee of Management decided to address collective...
Days of Magic
EACH year for the past three years, the Magical Societies throughout the country have held a national day of magic as near to All Halloween as possible and have presented the sums made to a national charity.
In 1948 the...
Category: Donations
INLAND LIFE-BOAT CREW
Stockport's unique life-boat crew—the only inland crew recognised by the R.N.L.I.—recently received a silver and bronze statuette of a life-boatman in appreciation of the crew's 33 years' work in collecting for the...
Category: Awards
None (4)
Tenby, Pembrokeshire - On 21st May, 1969, the reserve life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare, on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings to go to the help of a boy who had fallen over the cliff at Manorbier. A full account of...