LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Robin Weedon
Robin Weedon (wearing cap) bicycled an exhausting 200 miles from his home in Enfield to Hayling Island and back to raise £400 in sponsorship for Hayling branch. He is pictured here at Hayling with Shore Helper Bill Longford, Freddy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Kayaking for Cash
Kayaking for cash A group of kayaking instructors arrived at Poole in September to present the local lifeboat crew with money raised during a tough three-day expedition promoting safe sea kayaking.
The presention was an... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Boats
STONEHAVEN, KINCARDINESHIRE. — The Life-boat Alexander Blade was launched on the 5th March, shortly after noon, the fishing fleet, which had put to sea earlier in the day, having been overtaken by a strong gale, causing the sea to rise...
Seriality
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At seven o'clock on the evening of the 17th of August, 1957, the Gorleston coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the M.V. Seriality, of London, that her first officer had...
Prize-Winning Essay
A competition, open to secondary schoolboys and schoolgirls under the age of sixteen, for an essay on the subject of the Life-boat Service was held this year. The competition had been held regularly before the war, but it had not been...
Category: Articles
Coniston
Signals of distress were observed from the schooner Coniston, of Barrow, at about 9.30 A.M.
on the 18th March, when the vessel was lying at anchor off Skerries Harbour.
The coxswain of the Life-boat...
Janet Anderson
On the 13th April the Life-boat was launched at 7.40 A.M. to the assistance of the fishing-boat Janet Anderson, of Gourdon, which being unable to return to her own port in consequence of a heavy sea made for Johnshaven. The Life-boat put a...
Olivia
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 7.5 on the evening of the 17th of July, 1957, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that the Shambles lightvessel had reported a yacht in need of help near the lightvessel. At 7.20 the life-boat William and Clara...
The Royal Naval Motor Vessel Santa Cruz
St. Abbs, Berwickshire.—At 8.10 on the evening of the 2nd of August, 1957, the St. Abbs Head lighthouse-keeper reported that a small vessel had fired two rockets half a mile north-east of the lighthouse. At 8.20 the life-boat W. Ross...
A Cabin Sloop
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 7.50 on the morning of the 18th of September, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel was dismasted two miles south- west of the Royal Sovereign lightvessel.
Ten minutes later the...