LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Danish Coaster Merc Enterprise
Danish coaster capsized RAME HEAD Coastguard reported to Plymouth deputy launching authority at 1403 on January 16 that the Danish coaster Merc Enterprise was in serious difficulties 23 miles south of Plymouth breakwater, and that her crew...
Lifeboat Services
Irish Division Capsize WEXFORD GARDA informed the honorary secretary of Kilmore Quay lifeboat station at 0115 on Saturday, December 24, 1977, that four red flares had been sighted off Bannow Bay towards the Saltees. At 0130 maroons were...
Category: Services
The Building of Life-Boats
WE think that the public will be inter- ested to learn something of the way in which the Institution deals with one of the most important branches of the great life-saving work entrusted to it. Few except technicaJ experts can fully realize...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat
The sea runs high, and surging foam Is spent against the rocky shore, The moon sails on amidst the clouds That surge across the angry sky; No voice is heard, until one word Is called by lone maroon. 'Distress'.
The...
Category: Poetry
John HarrisonChairman of the Shoreham Appeal Committee Holds the Cheque for £7000 Presented to the Appeal By the 3Rd Battalion the Queens Regiment at A
John Harrison,chairman of the Shoreham appeal committee, holds the cheque for £7,000 presented to the appeal by the 3rd Battalion The Queens Regiment at a ceremony held at the station's boathouse. (Photo Beckett... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Six Men Were Rescued By Breeches Buoy from the Dutch Coaster
Six men were rescued by breeches buoy from the Dutch coaster Jan Brons which ran aground on Ardnamult Head in south-westerly gales on March I I , 1964. Stephen Whittle, then second coxswain, and Assistant Mechanic John Power volunteered to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
San Blas
Penlee, Cornwall. At 6.50 on the morning of the 12th of September, 1959, the port medical officer at Penzance informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the motor vessel San Blas of Stockholm was ill and needed medical...
Bevan Bear
Bevan Bear, the Humber lifeboat appeal's mascot visits the children of the Froebelian School in Horsforth, Leeds. Photo Yorkshire Evening Post. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
David Brann,
David Brann, fundraising and marketing director. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Joyce Giddins Aged 62 of Eastbourne Standing By the Lifeboat Bearing the Name of a Surgeon Who Saved Her Life 40 Years Ago When She Was Seriously Ill She S U B S
Mrs. Joyce Giddins, aged 62, of Eastbourne, standing by the lifeboat bearing the name of a surgeon who saved her life 40 years ago when she was seriously ill. She s u b s e q u e n t l y raised £11,000 from jumble sales and competitions... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs