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A Pilot Boat

Date: October 1865

Volume: 05

Issue: 58

At daylight, on the 20th February, a pilot-boat was observed at anchor under Craig Leith Island, with the sea breaking very heavily all round her, and the wind blowing a gale from N.N.W. with severe frost. The North Berwick life-boat was...

Gym

Date: December 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 422

New Brighton, Cheshire - At 3.45 p.m. on zoth June, 1967, it was learned that a small motor boat was in difficulties off the 025 buoy. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett slipped her moorings at 3.58 in a slight west north westerly breeze and a...

Aureity

Date: December 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 398

Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 26th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the tanker Aureity of Lon- don had fallen down a ladder and might have broken some ribs...

Life-Boat Inns

Date: September 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 377

A NEW inn at Caister, Norfolk, is to be named "Never Turn Back." This name commemorates a disaster and one of the most memorable sayings in the history of the Life-boat Service.

The disaster occurred on the 13th...

Category: Articles

Wedding Donations

Date: Winter 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 551

When Douglas and Pamela Smith, owners of the Stromness Hotel in Stromness. got married in November they decided to hold the reception in their own hotel! Already having a plentiful supply of 'candlewick bedspreads, toasters and... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Yacht

Date: Summer 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 573

Putting training into practice The crew atWeston-super-Mare were training in the Atlantic 75 lifeboat Coventry and Warwickshire on 8 June when they diverted to a real shout. A crew of five on a yacht requested assistance because of engine...

None (9)

Date: December 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 414

Fowey, Cornwall. At 10.13 P-m- °n I5th August, 1965, news came that a man and a boy were cut off by the tide on the west side of Lansallos beach. The lifesaving apparatus team were on their way and the assistance of the life-boat was...

Bookshelf

Date: Winter 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 543

Lifeboat station histories The Story of the Littlehampton lifeboats.

(updated 2nd edition) by Jeff Morris published by the author This volume is an updated second edition of one of a popular series of booklets produced by...

Category: Articles

Oft-Spoken Stories

Date: February 1908

Volume: 20

Issue: 227

CALM is the ocean ; fair is the sky; Vessels are passing silently by; Sunbeams are gilding the waves with their glory; Peaceful the scene! 'Tis an oft-spoken story.

Foaming and breaking close to our feet, On the dark...

Category: Poetry

Repertor

Date: September 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 421

Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 6.54 p.m. on 9th March, 1967, a barge was reported in difficulties near the Black Tail Spit buoy. The life-boat Cecil amd Lillian Philpott, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 7.21 in a storm force...