LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shoreline
THE LONDON INTERNATIONAL BOAT SHOW at Earl's Court from January 4 to 14 was for us a memorable occasion because we were celebrating ten years of Shoreline. It was at the 1969 Boat Show that the first member of the original...
Category: Articles
Two Vessels (2)
AUGUST 14TH. - APPLEDORE, AND CLOVELLY, DEVON, AND PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
About 7.10 in the evening information from the naval authorities was received at both Clovelly and Padstow that two vessels were sinking, as a result of...
A Minesweeper
NO V . 3 0TH. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.
A minesweeper was reported to have gone aground, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £19 6s..
Yla Section
A night rescue operation had its sequel at Portsmouth when the Commanding Officer of a Royal Naval frigate handed over a cheque for £100 to the Royal National Life-boat Institution. The Frigate, H.M.S. Naiad, was on her way to...
Category: Articles
Skogaland
Barra Island, Hebrides. At 8.30 on the morning of the 4th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Skogaland of Gothenburg, which was 180 miles off Barra, had a sick seaman on board. It was decided to...
John Pearson, Crew Member of Whitby's All Weather and Inshore Lifeboats Since 1987.
John Pearson, crew member of Whitby's all weather and inshore lifeboats since 1987.
John was awarded a Bronze medal in 1993 in recognition of his high standard of seam a n s h i p , boathandling skills and bravery when... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
WTC
These days David Copp never complains about the time his wife spends on the phone. . .
. .The reason is simple., the Copps have found a unique and easy way to raise money for their favourite charity, the...
Category: Advertisement
Maria
The Padstow new Life-boat, the Arab, was launched at 2 P.M.on the 3rd September to the assistance of the schooner Maria, of Granville, bound for that port from Swansea, with a cargo of coal. The schooner had stranded on the Doom Bar, during...
A Boat
On the 19th January, at 6 P.M., during heavy gale at "W.N.W., signals of distress were observed from a vessel at anchor in the bay. The Life-boat was thereupon launched, and on gaining the vessel it was ascertained that a boat which had...
Arthur Capewell, Q.C.
MR. ARTHUR CAPEWELL, Q.C., a member of the Committee of Management, died on the 18th of October, 1957, at the age of 54. He was Deputy Chairman of the Somerset Quarter Sessions and held the posts of Counsel to the Lord Chairman of Committees...
Category: Obituaries