LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ever Ready — Kent Ferry Exercise
The unexpected can often make an exercise more real than anyone intended. This is how Ramsgate lifeboatmen passed an extra test of skill with flying colours. Photographs are by courtesy of Jim Byrne, the story is told by Georgette...
Category: Articles
Making Money
A number of valuable fund raising suggestions have been put forward by Mrs.
W. E. Huntley, of Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, and some of them are listed here.
• At a party or any social gathering ask couples...
Category: Donations
Sundew
Holed yacht A YACHT ADRIFT in a strong southerly gale and in very large breaking seas two miles off the Wittering shore in Bracklesham Bay and drifting westwards was reported to the lifeboat authority of Hayling Island ILB station by HM...
George Leith,
George Leith, coxswain of Lerwick lifeboat from 1969 to 1979. He joined the crew in 1949 and served as bowman from 1954 until his appointment as coxswain in 1969. He was awarded a Silver medal in 1972..
Category: Obituaries
Dermot Walsh,
AUGUST 1993 Dermot Walsh, coxswain of Valentia lifeboat from 1969 to 1982. He joined the crew in 1949 and served as second coxswain from 1964 until his appointment as coxswain.
He was awarded a Silver medal in...
Category: Obituaries
Spes
Padstow, Cornwall - At 3 p.m. on 21st August, 1968, it was learnt thatthe motor boat Spes with six people and a dog on board was overdue. She had last been sighted one and a half miles north east of Galland island.
The life...
A Yacht
HIGH AND DRY Margate, Kent. At 11.22 a.m. on l6th August, 1964, Mid Barrow lightvessel reported that a yacht was ashore at North Shingles sands. It was low water with a moderate sea and a light southeasterly breeze. A helicopter which had...
Margaret is a lifeboat legend
‘She’s got more wrinkles than me!’ joked Margaret Paterson (pictured centre) on receiving her 100th birthday card from HM The Queen. Whether it’s down to good humour, good living or good works, the remarkably youthful centenarian is an...
Category: Articles
Pool Fisher
Capsized coaster IN THE EARLY MORNING of Tuesday November 6, 1979, Niton Radio, Isle of Wight received a mayday call from the coaster Pool Fisher: 'We are going over, position south west of St Catherine's Point'. Nothing more was...
Pool Fisher (1)
Capsized coaster IN THE EARLY MORNING of Tuesday November 6, 1979, Niton Radio, Isle of Wight received a mayday call from the coaster Pool Fisher: 'We are going over, position south west of St Catherine's Point'. Nothing more was...