LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fundraisers
Sail Safari -- it's a lifeboat knockout! Using the 'It's a Knockout' theme, which has recently re-emerged into the limelight, the RNLI staged Sail Safari, an 'around the world boat race' in Battersea Park on 25...
Category: Articles
The Passenger Vessel Purbeck Gem
Two lifeboats help in evacuation of 114 from stranded passenger vesselBoth of Poole's lifeboats were called on to help with the evacuation of 114 passengers from a passenger vessel which ran aground in darkness and thick fog on the night...
In This Issue
In this issue News 2 Letters 8 Feature Better beaches, safer seas 10 The editor looks at the beach rescue pilot scheme that has been running on 22 south west beaches over the summer months Lifeboats in action A Vellum-winning rescue by the...
Category: Contents
September (1)
EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE. About 11.30 in the morning of the 26th of May, 1944, the motor fishing boat Cecil Rhodes, with six men on board, caught fire while fishing some nine miles north-north-east of Eyemouth. A light westerly wind was...
Category: Services
Launching and Recovery—Part I: Slipway Stations By Edward Wake- Walker Assistant Public Relations Officer (London)
IN THE ACCOUNT of the service by Padstow lifeboat to the coaster Skopelos Sky which appeared in the summer edition of the journal, there was an unusual addendum. Unlike most reports that begin with words to the effect that 'the lifeboat...
Category: Articles
SPECIAL DELIVERY
'ATTENTION ALL SHIPPING’
I thought you might be interested to know that my painting of the shipping forecast, entitled 'Attention All Shipping', was awarded top prize in a competition run by the British...
Category: Articles
People and Places
The Tweenies join the crew Popular children's BBC TV programme, The Tweenies, was in Poole in August filming with Poole lifeboat crew. The character Judy (the green one in the picture!) went afloat on the station's Brede class...
Category: Articles
Action stations!
Ever wondered what happens behind the scenes in the minutes before the rescues described in this magazine? Here’s the answer
Just imagine – it’s night. The wind is howling outside but you are...
Category: Articles
The Bridlington Cobles Serene, Eva Ann and Challenge
Knockdown THE COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Flamborough lifeboat station on Monday January 23, 1984, that three Bridlington cobles, Serene, Eva Ann and Challenge, had been caught in worsening weather north of...
The Bridlington Cobles Serene, Eva Ann and Challenge (1)
Knockdown THE COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Flamborough lifeboat station on Monday January 23, 1984, that three Bridlington cobles, Serene, Eva Ann and Challenge, had been caught in worsening weather north of...