LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Life-Boat Broadcasts
THE Hastings motor life-boat was one of the thirty-two life-boats which were launched during the exceptional gales at the end of May and the begin- ning of June, and was out for five hours hi the worst weather conditions she had ever...
Category: Articles
Well Oiled!
Well oiled! Ray Burden and his wife Deanna recently presented an oil painting of Weymouth lifeboat, Tony Vanderve/l, to coxswain Bob Runyeard.
Ray painted the picture and donated it to the station to mark the 20th... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Maggie
On the morning of the 4th October news was received from the coastguard that the motor fishing boat Maggies, of Inverness, was at sea somewhere near Portmahomack and was thought to be in distress. A strong N.E. breeze was blowing, with a...
Fred
Eastbourne, Sussex. At 6.25 p.m.
on igth December, 1965, the coastguard reported that red flares had been seen three miles south-south-west of Beachy Head Lighthouse. The life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched at 6.48 in a...
Goodheart
Dover, Kent.—At 10.45 on the night of the 18th of March, 1954, Lloyds signal station on the eastern harbour arm reported that a boat had flashed SOS three times. At 10.50 the life-boat Southern Africa put out.
The sea was...
Colley
FOUR YACHTSMEN LANDED FROM DUTCH VESSEL Weymouth, Dorset. At 7.35 on the evening of Wednesday the 7th of August, 1963, the Wyke coastguard told the honorary secretary that the Dutch motor vessel Zundrecht had four survivors from the motor...
Pedro
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 1.12 early on the morning of the 28th of June, 1957, the coastguard reported that a vessel was burning flares south of the harbour.
The life-boat Michael Stephens put out at 1.45 in a slight sea....
Diana
BRIDLINGTON, February 1, 1988: a southerly gale to strong gale force 9 and the trawler Diana with three men aboard had been dodging the seas off Flamborough Head since the early hours of the morning. At 1530 the coastguard reported that she...
The Life-Boat Station
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the house for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 233 Life-boat Stations...
Category: Articles
Guiding Light
GUIDING LIGHT GUIDED Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 5.10 p.m. on I5th October, 1963, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a fishing coble had been lying at anchor off Newbiggin Point for some time. On investigation it was noticed...