LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Catamaran (1)
DONATION MADE Dunbar, East Lothian. At 840 p.m.
on I5th June, 1965, a member of the public told the coxswain that a catamaran had capsized about 300/400 yards off the harbour entrance. The life-boat Margaret put out at 8.51...
Relief Fleet - Tyne class Mariners Friend
The Relief fleet Tyne class lifeboat Mariners Friend on the River Medina during the naming and dedication ceremony held at Cowes Base on Wednesday 20 September 1989. (Photo Jeff Morris). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Bridge Too Far!
Little Sophie Ramster looks rather overawed by the size of the task ahead of her in crossing the Shard Bridge! Photo Blackpool Evening Gazette. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
St.Ives, Cornwall - South Division
(left) St Ives harbour nestles in shelter of St Ives Head, known locally as The Island', protected from westerly winds but open through from the north to the The lifeboat station (right) is at base of the small pier on the shoreward side... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lewes Arms
Lewis Carroll would have been surprised to see the Lewes Arms adaptation of Alice in Lewes Land. Licensee, Paul Stonehouse, alias Flopsie the White Rabbit, his wife Pauline, the Queen of Hearts, plus six members of Lewes and District... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Festival Friends
As a tribute to Robert who first cemented the bond between CAMRA and the Peterborough branch, a framed picture of him was recently presented by his parents to the Redcar lifeboat crew (shown above).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (26)
OCT. 27TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
An aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea but the life-boat found nothing. - Permanent paid crew : Rewards, 9s..
A DRAM TO REMEMBER
The Scapa Distillery has released 249 bottles of a Battle of Jutland centenary whisky, to remember those lost in the First World War’s largest naval battle. The Scapa Jutland whisky has matured for 16 years, with 11 of the bottles named...
Category: Articles
Your shout
My husband and I were on Newgale Beach, Pembrokeshire, on Tuesday 17 July.
We climbed to the top of the shingle bank and saw two surfers in trouble. Along with others, we stood watching the absolutely heroic...
Category: Articles
Schiller
"Oh, many a bark, to that breast grappled fast, Has gone down to the fearful and fathomless grave; Again, crash'd together the keel and the mast, To je seen tost aloft in the glee of the wave1." SCHILLER L 2.
Category: Poetry