LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Capella (1)
Joint service saves vessel and crew St Bees inshore lifeboat and Workington's relief all-weather Mersey worked together to save the 65ft fishing vessel Capella and her crew of four on 14 July 1996.
The St Bees Atlantic...
False Alarms. A Warship's Experiments: A Picnic Party's Fire: A Message In a Bottle
A Warship's Experiments: A Picnic Party's Fire: A Message in a Bottle.
THREE more have to be added to the many and varied false alarms which have called out Life-boats.* On 25th August last, the Motor Life-boat at...
Category: Articles
Book Reviews
• A. F. Mumble's The Rowing Life- Boats of Whitby (Home and Son, Whitby, £1.63—including postage), has been produced with much scholarship and care. Mr Humble, who is acting librarian of the Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society...
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Say It With Flowers
Say it with flowers The Alsager ladies' guild celebrated its 40th birthday with a beautiful floral display at Milton Park Gardens.
The guild, which raises between £4,000 and £5,000 a year, had asked Congleton... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Helmsman Ian Mcdowell - Bronze Medal
Helmsman Ian McDowell - Bronze Medal St Bees lifeboat, 31 July 1993 Ian McDowell was in charge of St Bees' C class «g» inshore lifeboat when she saved the crew of two from a grounded fishing vessel.
The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Glad Tidings
JANUARY 4TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 5.48 in the evening the coastguard reported a boat burning flares close to rock on the north side of Wick Bay, and the motor life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched at six o’clock,...
Point Girl
JULY 30TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO.
CORK. At 1.20 P.M. a man reported to the life-boat coxswain that the motor fishing boat Point Girl, of Ballycotton, which was out with anglers, was flying a distress signal about two miles S.W...
Swedish Life-Boat Jubilee
THE jubilee celebrations of the Swedish Life-boat Society were held at Gothenburg from the 17th to the 19th of May. Captain V. M. Wyndham-Quin, Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Management, and Colonel A. D.
Burnett Brown...
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None (2)
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—About 11.30 on the night of the 5th of February, 1954. the Formby coastguard rang up to say that a woman at Knott End had reported that she had seen red flares between Fleetwood and Barrow. At 1.15 on the 6th the...
A Rowing Boat (1)
Salcombe, Devon.—About seven in the evening, on the 31st of August, 1950, the Hope Cove coastguard telephoned that a man in a rowing boat about a mile south of Prawle Point was in difficulties. At 7.15 the life-boat Mil- burn, 011 temporary...