LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fund Raisers
Alors! Visitors to the Three Horseshoes at Turves, near Whittlesey, might have been forgiven for imagining they were in France rather than in the Fens of England. The landlord of the pub, exiled Frenchman Christian Kolich, and his wife Terri...
Category: Articles
Lifeboats at Llandudno and Conwy By Heather Deane
LLANDUDNO AND CONWY are neighbouring lifeboat stations on the north western tip of Wales, separated by just a few miles of coast but by more than 100 years in lifeboat history.
In 1850 Llandudno was a small village...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats In 1963
Date Station 1963 Jan. 4 Selsey „ 7 Humber „ 9 North Sunderland .
„ 12 Humber „ 12 Sunderland..
„ 12 Berwick „ 16 Humber „ 16 Scarborough „ 16 Whitby „ 17 Caister „ 18 Scarborough „ 18 Runswick ..
Category: Services
Dangerous Approach to Yacht Aground
ON the morning of the 21st July, 1962, Coxswain Harold Parkinson of Lytham- St. Anne's was told at 10.15 that a yacht was aground on the north side of the Ribble channel about two and a half miles offshore. He immediately told the...
Category: Services
Crew Thrown Out of IRB
Two brothers, Christopher and John Cook, who formed the crew of the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, inshore rescue boat, and a 64 year old retired doctor, Dr.
Harrison Broadbent, have received letters of appreciation signed by the...
Category: Services
Close call
Swanage volunteers were rudely awoken at 5.25am one Sunday. Within just 10 minutes both station lifeboats were alongside a sinking vessel
On 9 October 2010, Swanage lifeboat and shore crews had...
Category: Articles
Truganini
Wednesday Catamaran caught out A BOAT SIGHTED in exceptionally heavy seas on the south west part of West Hoyle Bank and needing help was reported to the honorary secretary of Hoylake lifeboat station at 0845 on Thursday September 20, 1979,...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, llth June, 1896.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Silver Medal for a Shore-Boat Case
ON 30th May, at Whitby, five boys, from eight to seventeen years of age, were coming into the harbour, just before seven in the evening, in a small pleasure boat. There was a light breeze blowing and the sea was smooth, but there was a swell...
Category: Medals
The Freighter Dovrefjell, of Oslo
Longhope, Orkneys, and Wick, Caith- ness-shire.—At 4.22 on the morning of the 3rd of February, 1956, the freighter Dovrefjell, of Oslo, a converted tanker, wirelessed that she had gone aground in the Pentland Skerries but was in no immediate...