LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tina Louise
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At 12.15 p.m. on 2nd July, 1967, news was received that a fishing vessel had stranded on the West Barrow sands one and a half miles north west of the Mid-Barrow lightvessel.
The life-boat Sir Godfrey...
Sea Gypsy
Cloughey-Portavogie, Co. Down - At 7.15 p.m. on 30th July, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was in distress off Kearney Point. The life-boat Glencoe, Glasgow slipped her moorings at 7.30.
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Anmara
Long Search THE STERN TRAWLER Anmara and her crew of three were reported overdue from Scarborough on the evening of May 21, 1987 and a search was organised by Humber Coastguard, to begin at first light on the following day.
Fat-Free Cheque
Fat-free cheque The Exmouth branch received a cash boost of £2,000 from the nationwide slimming club organisation 'Slimmer'.
The organisation's central administration office is in Exmouth and when funds... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In This Issue
Feature: Safety at the seaside Safer beaches through national signage Feature: Come together The RNLI's 2004 ACM and presentation of awards Feature: Lifeboat Lottery Lifeboats and Lifeguards in action Including real-life rescue accounts...
Category: Contents
Letters
Letter of the quarter Memorial arboretum goes ahead Following on from the appeal in the letters page of the winter issue of the Lifeboat, I am pteased to announce that we have reached our target of £5,000. We have secured a plot at the...
Category: Correspondence
Fastnet Challenge
In October Raymond Hirst, secretary of Morecarnbe and Heysham branch, completed the Fastnet Challenge aboard Team Spirit, one of Sir Chay Blyth's 67' classic challenge round-the-world ocean racing yachts.
As a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (12)
JULY 17TH. - CLACTON-ON-SEA, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A message had been received from the coasttake guard that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea between Walton pier and Gunfleet Lighthouse and that a man had come down from it by...
L’Appel-de-Lemar
MAY 2ND. - FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.
During the evening the French fishing vessel L’Appel-de-Lemar, while on passage from Newlyn to Fleetwood, with a crew of five, grounded on St. Bernard’s Wharf about half a mile...
Photography at Sea – techniques for capturing amazing photographs afloat
Photography at Sea – techniques for capturing amazing photographs afloat
by Patrick Roach and Fred Barter
Review by Tony Roddam
Patrick Roach learned his craft in the swinging sixties at the...
Category: Articles