LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letter of Appreciation
THE Committee of Management has decided that a letter of appreciation should be sent to Coxswain John Bassett of Eastbourne for his part in the service by the Eastbourne life-boat when the trawler British Aviator and the motor vessel...
Category: Committee
Dr. Broadbent Honoured
A RETIRED DOCTOR, Dr. Harrison Broadbent, of Middleton-by-Freshwater, Isle of Wight, who received a letter of appreciation from the Institution for the part he played in the gallant IRB rescue attempt at Scratchell's Bay on loth April,...
Category: Awards
Cover Picture
Survey ship Geotek Alpha ablaze off the west coast of Scotland last July. Barra Island's 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat, Hugh William Viscount Gough, can be seen with 15 of the casualty's crew aboard. Eventually the lifeboat had to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Over the Top
Over the top Daredevil gran, Barbara Page, threw caution to the wind in August by abseiling 325ft down Blackpool's fastest rollercoaster and raising over £1,000 for the lifeboats in the process.
Barbara, a member... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ready for 2007 Yet?
The Lifeboat is pleased to announce that the third RNLI SOS day will be on Friday 26 January 2007. Will your school, youth organisation, office or factory colleagues wear their trainers for the day in exchange for a £1/€2 donation?... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Liner Calypso (5)
Cruise liner in crisis Six lifeboats launched on 6 May 2006 to the help of The Calypso (pictured). The 135m liner and 708 passengers were 15 miles south of Beachy Head, East Sussex, when fire broke out. Tyne classes MaxAitken III from...
None (2)
First season success Glorious sunshine brought many to Croyde and Woolacombe beaches, North Devon, on 11 June 2006, but high surf and strong rip currents combined to make a busy day for RNLI lifeguards. They used their rescue watercraft to...
A Tale of Two Towns
Regarding the photograph on page 11 of the Spring 2002 issue of the Lifeboat, showing the crew of the Charles Biggs lifeboat, there are two errors in the caption. They are the crew of the Lytham lifeboat: the St Annes boat Laura Jane was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (177)
NOVEMBER 16TH. - RUNSWICK, SCARBOROUGH, AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
A British bomber aeroplane had been reported down some miles out at sea, and later it was reported that another bomber was down, but nothing was found by the...
Schools for Sailors. Second Article
IN my last communication I endeavoured to discuss the question of Schools for Sailors in its general bearings: I now proceed to give a special application of it with regard to a district with which I am familiar—I mean the sea-coast of Wales...
Category: Articles