LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Home on the Beach
RNLI lifeguards on Cornwall’s Fistral Beach finished the season with a brand new base.
Previously, the lifeguards on one of the UK’s busiest beaches were working from metal storage containers (above). Now, they have a...
Category: Articles
Elizabeth and Cicely, of Guernsey
The brig Eliza- beth and Cicely, of Guernsey, ran ashore off this place about one o'clock on the morn- ing of the 16th Jan., and soon began to break up, the crew of 8 men being forced to take refuge in the rigging. When the perilous...
Index to the Life-Boat Stations of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
f The figures refer to tlu numbers of Hit Life-boats detailed, on pages 616-627.) Aberdovey, Merioneth, 165.
Abersocb, Carnarvon, 169 Aberystwith, Cardigan, 164...
Category: Articles
The Coastguard Look-Out at Clacton-On-Sea Is Perched on Top of a Martello Tower
by courtesy of Ken Adams The Coastguard look-out at Clacton-on-Sea is perched on top of a Martello Tower.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Zulu, of Poole
POOLE.—On the 23rd January intelligence was received that the steam-launch Zulu, of Poole, anchored in Studland Bay, was signalling for assistance, and that if the wind freshened she would probably be driven ashore. At 1.15 P.M. the reserve...
Doddington, of Dumfries
On the 4th March, the schooner Doddtngtan, of Dumfries, was obliged, in consequence of the severity of the weather, to ran for Ayr Harbour, when she struck on the Nicholas Bock, This rock is about four hundred yards from the south pier, and...
Waree, of Dundalk
LLANDUDNO.—On Sunday, the 12th April, a message was received by telephone from Colwyn Bay, at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, stating that a brigantine was showing signals of distress. She was lying at anchor about two and a half miles...
The Fundraisers
Monopoly Live Most of us have played the classic board game Monopoly, but what about Monopoly Live where players actually visit the London sites from the board either by foot or public transport? This is just what happened on Sunday 6 July...
Category: Articles
Empress of England
Padstow, Cornwall. At 8.45 on the evening of the 1st of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the coaster Eldorita had the motor launch Empress of England, which had one man aboard, in tow and was making for...