LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A celebration of life
Geoff Holt was a teenage sailor with vast potential when an accident changed his life. But his love of the sea and spirit of adventure have no bounds
There were no lifeguards on duty to warn...
Category: Articles
During An Exercise In January, 1970, the Bridlington, Yorkshire, Life-Boat, Because of Ice and Snow, Had to Be Manhandled Down the Slope to the Beach.
During an exercise in January, 1970, the Bridlington, Yorkshire, life-boat, because of ice and snow, had to be manhandled down the slope to the beach.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Yacht (3)
Bembridge, Isle of Wight—26th May.
A small yacht had been reported in difficulties, but it was found that she did not need any help.—Rewards, £5 5s. 6d..
A Fishing Boat (5)
Nov. 10TH. - PEEL, ISLE OF MAN. The coastguard had reported that a small fishing boat was in distress, but when the life-boat reached her found that no distress signals had been made. - Rewards, £11 10s..
An R.A.F. Aerial Life-Boat
MAY 12TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.
An R.A.F. aerial life-boat was adrift and flying a distress signal, but an air-sea rescue launch took her in tow. - Rewards, £9 8s..
Cestrian, of Chester
On the 31st of August, the schooner Cestrian, of Chester, in running for Newhaven harbour, grounded on the bar, when the Institution's life-boat stationed there was launched, and proceeded to her aid. An attempt was at first made to save...
Gay Star, of Castletown
Margate, Kent - At 4.43 p.m. on 26th September, 1967, the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was in difficulties with a fouled propeller six miles north east of the North Foreland lighthouse. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service...
Twelve Hours In a Whole Gale
ON August 22nd the Clacton Motor Life-boat was out for over twelve hours in a whole gale with a very heavy sea, and went to the help of two vessels.
The first was a small yacht with two people on board, which had become...
Category: Services
Coxswain Thomas Bowen, of Cardigan
Coxswain Thomas Bowen, who died in December last at the age of seventy- seven, was for over twenty-five years an officer of the Cardigan life-boat, and for nineteen of those years its coxswain.
He retired in 1920 on account...
Category: Obituaries
Some Ways of Raising Money
The Province of Northern Ireland improved its fund-raising in 1975 by 21 per cent; a sterling achievement in difficult times. The voluntary workers of Belfast raised no less than £11,000.
London flag day, Tuesday March...
Category: Donations