LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy and a Sailing Dinghy
TWO CALLS TO DINGHIES IN ONE EVENING Blackpool, Lancashire. At 5.45 on the evening of the 1st June, 1963, the Fleetwood coastguard telephoned to say three youths in a rubber dinghy were drifting out to sea a mile off Rossall Point. At 6.15...
Northerly Storm—Spring Tides: a Log of the Night of January 11 and 12 1978 By Michael Pennell
On the night of January 11 and 12, 1978, storm force winds blowing right down the North Sea coinciding with some of the highest tides of the winter resulted in severe flooding and damage down the East Coast of England and in the Thames...
Category: Articles
These Four Men from Bridport and West Dorset Golf Club
These four men from Bridport and West Dorset Golf Club set off at 5 o'clock in the morning to play 100 holes of sponsored golf for the RNLI. Their marathon ended at 7 o'clock in the evening after the completion of six rounds—no less... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Al Mor
Over marshes AT ABOUT 1630 on Wednesday December 17, 1980, Alan Coster, assistant harbour master at Lymington and a member of the lifeboat crew, received a telephone call from the Sealink offices, Lymington, with information relayed from a...
Hot News from Yorkshire
This year's Great Yorkshire Show held in July must have been one of the hottest on record and many thousands of visitors travelled to Harrogate for this popular agricultural show.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fund Raisers
Kipling in the Borders On Saturday March 9 The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh kindly allowed their home, Floors Castle in the Borders, to be the magnificent setting for a Kipling evening organised by the Honourable Mrs Henry Douglas-Home and...
Category: Articles
Eljida
FIRST LAUNCH ON SERVICE Wells, Norfolk. At 9.14 p.m. on 3ist July, 1965, a yacht was seen to be in need of assistance 2 miles north-west of Blakeney Point. There was a moderate westnorth- westerly breeze and a moderate sea. It was high water...
Naom Brigid
JUST IN TIME Fenit, Co. Kerry. At 1.15 p.m. on 22nd June, 1964, Valentia radio informed the honorary secretary that an unknown fishing vessel was in serious difficulties 5! miles north-north-east of Loop Head.
There was a...
The Redcar Life-Boat and Captain Cook
THE famous explorer, Captain Cook, was born near Stockton-on-Tees, in Yorkshire, on 27th October, 1728, and his bicentenary was celebrated this year.
His mother was a member of an old Redcar family, while his sister married...
Category: Articles
The Steamers Lisburn & Baronminto, and S.S. Patia, Clumber Hall and Alcora (1)
OCTOBER 30TH. - PETERHEAD, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 6.30 in the morning a message was received at Peterhead from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore on the rocks a mile east of Rattray Head, which is about ten...