LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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After an action-packed summer on the water, autumn finds us in a reflective mood
As we sent Lifeboat to print, the sun had been baking the UK and Ireland for weeks. And we weren’t complaining! But warm weather draws crowds...
Category: Articles
Additional Life-Boat Stations and New Life-Boats
DUNGARVON. — A life-boat station has been established at Dungarvon, in County Waterford, and a 30 ft., single-banked, selfrighting boat, on the Institution's plan, together with a good carriage, has been provided by the Society, a good...
Category: Articles
Tijl Uilenspiegel (5)
Six lifeboats in search for missing Belgian trawler The new Tyne class lifeboat at Douglas, Isle of Man, had a testing time during her first service, in a search for a missing Belgian trawler which lasted for 11 hours in Force 7 winds and...
Tijl Uilenspiegel (2)
Six lifeboats in search for missing Belgian trawler The new Tyne class lifeboat at Douglas, Isle of Man, had a testing time during her first service, in a search for a missing Belgian trawler which lasted for 11 hours in Force 7 winds and...
Fountains Abbey
SURVIVORS LANDED FROM VESSEL ON FIRE Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 6.45 on the morning of the 13th February, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor trawler John O'Heugh was making for Lowestoft with the crew of...
Mona
INEXPERIENCED YACHTSMEN IN DAMAGED BOAT Sheringham, Norfolk. At 10.5 on the morning of Wednesday, 21st August, 1963, a fisherman returning from crabbing in squally weather with poor visibility and light wind from the west-north-west reported...
A Rowing Boat
MAN WINCHED ABOARD At 10.50 a.m. on 6th December, 1964, the coastguard reported that a rowing boat with three men aboard had been swamped at Lligwy beach. The life-boat Watkin Williams was launched at 10.57 to search for the rowing boat....
Coxswain Thomas Horne
THOMAS MOORE HORNE, who died in January, 1955, at the age of 82, was coxswain of the Exmouth life-boat from 1928 to 1938. He was second coxswain from 1920 to 1928, and before that had been signalman for eleven years..
Category: Obituaries
Life-Boat In Water-Colour
A water-colour study of a life-boat launching which won a holiday cruise to Russia and Scandinavia for Barry Ketley, 17 year old Hull schoolboy. He entered the painting in the Daily Mail New Year Schools' Contest and was one of 24...
Category: Drawings
An Aeroplane (97)
JUNE 23RD. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. An R.A.F. aeroplane had come down in the sea and her pilot had baled out, but he was picked up by a boat which had put out from the shore. - Rewards, £11 10s..