LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles (1)
Fifteen local motor fishing cobles put to sea early on the morning of the 2nd April, in moderate weather. By 8 A.M. the weather was rapidly becoming worse and the sea was very rough. The pulling and sailing life-boat Hollon the Third was...
Gretna Green Blacksmith's Shop
MR. R. RENNISOX, the manager and guide of the old blacksmith's shop at Gretna Green, famous for runaway marriages, which is visited by thousands of people every year, very kindly offered, at the end of June, 1950, to have collecting...
Category: Donations
Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., K.B.E.
IN the Queen's first Birthday Honours Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., the chairman of the Committee of Management, was appointed a Knight of the Order of the British Empire, in recognition of his public services as "Chairman of the Isle...
Category: Awards
A Vampire Aircraft
Barry Dock, and The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 1.5 on the after- noon of the 12th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretaries at Barry Dock and The Mumbles that a request had been received from the Sea Rescue Co-...
Life-Boat Day In Capetown.
The first life-boat day to be held in oae af the Dominions for the British beat Service was held ia Capetown on February 4th. It raised £1506. This day vas of the appeal which Miss Pattie Price has beea making throughout the Union of...
Category: Articles
Caught in a loch
10 November 2012: When a fundraising swimmer’s support boat broke down on Loch Ness and began to drift onto the rocky shores, the skipper wasted no time in calling for help. The volunteer crew from Loch Ness were...
Category: Articles
Zestoria
On the 27th November, at 9 P.M., signals were shown by a vessel in Lowestoft North Roads. The No. 1 Life-boat proceeded out in tow of a steam-tug, and brought ashore the crew of 5 men from the schooner Zestoria, of Colchester, which vessel...
Tanera
HELICOPTER AND BOATS SEARCH FOR SURVIVORS Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 3.25 p.m.
on Saturday the 14th September, 1963, the honorary secretary was told by the coastguard that the ship Collena had reported that the yacht Tanera...
Farewell to An Old Friend
It can sometimes be forgotten that the excitement of having a new lifeboat on station is often tinged with real sadness at losing an old friend - a lifeboat which has see the crew through thick and thin and whose every nut, bolt and foible... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fishing Coble
15th November. A Filey fishing coble was missing, but she was found by the Filey life-boat.—Rewards, £18 11s. (An account of the Filey service appears on page 210.).