LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
It Had Never Been Done Before—Not Surprisingly—
/(had never been done before—not surprisingly—so this intrepid group set out to do it: (I to r) Ray Hea/ey, his wife Maureen, Remo Mele, Gillian Earles and George McLeod. The feat was to water ski the 50 miles between Lochinver and Stornoway... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
David Jones Ro(Nw) Presents a Framed Certificate
David Jones, RO(NW), presents a framed certificate of thanks to the Queen's Arms, Warwick-on-Eden, where over the past eight years £10,000 has been raised for Carlisle branch. (I to r): Dr John Southern, Carlisle branch honorary... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Weymouth Memories
Your series looking at lifeboat stations from the air in the Spring 1996 issue, reminded me that I had come across a 'snapshot' of the Weymouth lifeboat taken in 1936.
I thought readers might like to see the sharp... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Men of Bumpstead and District Branch
Men of Bumpstead and District branch are not afraid to grab an oar and jump into their pulling lifeboat Sir William Hilary. Guiding her through the streets of Steeple Bumpstead as part of the local carnival can be a profitable task for this... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Angmering Record
The Angmering, West Sussex, branch held its annual Garden Fete in June, in the grounds of Lord and Lady Delfont's Angmering House. Lady Delfont took over as president of the branch in September The amount of money raised has increased... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 5.45 on the morning of the 27th of July, 1952, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that a dinghy was drifting one and a half miles south-south-east of Portland Bill, and at 6.0 the life-boat William and Clara Kyland...
Faith
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 6.24 a.m. on 12th February, 1970, the coastguard reported that a distress signal had been sighted south west of Breaksea point. The life-boat Arthur and Blanche Harris slipped her moorings at 6.50. There was a...
A Ketch
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk - At 12.15 p.m. on 10th December, 1967, the honorary secretary learnt that a boat was in difficulties about half a mile east of the lookout.
The life-boat Khami slipped her moorings at...
Lifeboat Painting
The well-known artist, Ben Maile, who has been selected as one of Britain's top ten artists by the Fine Art Guilds for the past three years, has painted a new painting of the St Ives lifeboat at sea. An edition limited to 600 of signed...
Category: Articles
Ros Airgead
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 8.15 on the evening of the 4th of September, 1958, a message was received from Valentia radio station that the trawler Ros Airgead needed a doctor twenty miles north of Blaskets, as one of her seamen had been badly...