LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Birthday Honours
The following were among those honoured by the Queen in the Birthday Honours: Knights Bachelor Captain George E. Barnard, deputy master of Trinity House, who is an ex- omcio member of the Committee of Management of the...
Category: Awards
A Dinghy (1)
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 5.5 p.m. on i6th June, 1966, a message was received that a dinghy had capsized off Dalkey and her crew of three were in the sea. There was a fresh southerly wind and a choppy sea. It was high...
A Motor Boat (1)
Troon, Ayrshire - At 3.50 p.m. on ist October, 1966, the honorary secretary saw a red flare aboard a motor boat off Lady Isle. Ten minutes later the lifeboat James and Barbara Aitken left her moorings in a rough sea and a fresh west north...
Potemkin
Sennen Cove, Cornwall - At 10.20 a.m. on nth June, 1967, it was learned that a motor cruiser was in difficulties with engine failure near Cape Cornwall.
The life-boat Susan Ashley was launched at 10.31 in a light variable...
Borough Arms Dunmere
Money raised on the bottle: Trevor Ramsden (r) honorary secretary, is presented with a cheque for £120 by Ian Bolton, landlord of the Borough Arms, Dunmere, Bodmin who, along with his customers, is a longstanding supporter. The money... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Skylark
DEC. 3RD. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 10.30 A.M. the coastguard reported that a boat a few hundred yards from the Shoreham gas works, on a lee shore, appeared to have hoisted a coat as a distress signal. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing...
A Class of Its Own
A class of its own John Long recently retired as second coxswain of the Barrow lifeboat. In order to relieve his withdrawal symptoms, the crew built him his own 'lifeboat' as a retirement present.
John discovered... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sea Festival
Arbroath Sea Fest held over 16 and 17 August 1997 proved to be a huge success for RNLI fundraisers - donations totalled £1.300, with the sales outlet raising £550.
The glorious weather attracted some 10,000 people... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
H.M. Destroyer Wallace (1)
SEPT. 13TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK, AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON.
NORFOLK. Early in the morning information was received that two vessels had been in collision off Lowestoft. A N.E.
gale was blowing with...
Constance Bowater
St. Mary's, Scilly Isles. At 3 p.m. on 22nd October, 1965, a message was received via Land's End radio from the motor vessel Constance Bowater that she had a seriously ill seaman aboard and requested that he be taken off and sent to...