LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A New Slipway Opens at Ackergill In April 1910 the Lifeboat at the Ceremony Is Co-Operator No 3
A new slipway opens at Ackergill in April 1910. The lifeboat at the ceremony is Co-Operator No 3.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Beetle Drive
THE WRECKERS recently returned to the popular Devonshire holiday resort of Ilfracombe, but these particular plunderers were strictly landlubbers who had managed to smuggle their way into timbers within the local life-boat...
Category: Articles
New Motor Life-Boats at Walton and Clacton. Inaugural Ceremonies By H.R.H. Prince George, K.G.
Inaugural Ceremonies by H.R.H. Prince George, K.G.
H.R.H. PRINCE GEORGE, K.G., named the new Motor Life-boats at Walton-on- the-Naze and Clacton-on-Sea on 25th July. These are the fourth and fifth Life-boats which Prince...
Category: Inaugurations
Lifeboat Services
South Eastern Division Boarding boat rescue from saltings REQUESTING THE LAUNCHING of Calshot lifeboat at 2207 on Thursday, January 29, HM Coastguard told the honorary secretary that at 2054 a red flare had been reported in Ashlett Creek and...
Category: Services
Feature Building Into the Millennium
RNLI shoreworks manager Howard Richings takes his coastal voyage from Fishguard to SillothThe first half of 2001 was one of the busiest periods ever for the RNLI shoreworks team. Before setting sail northwards from Fishguard, a quick fook...
Category: Articles
The Danish Coaster Lady Kamilla (1)
Storm search A PROLONGED SEARCH was made by Padstow, St Ives and Clovelly lifeboats in a south-westerly storm for the Danish coaster Lady Kamilla, which foundered off Trevose Head on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1977, and for her crew of nine...
The Best Essay
By VIOLET GLOAG (12J) Ann Street School, Dundee.
What are the Qualities which make a Good Life-boatman ? ONE of the most essential noble qualities that make a good life-boatman is that of bravery. His is not the bravery...
Category: Articles
Slick rescue
In the midst of an ecological disaster, St Mary’s and Penlee volunteers helped keep 35 people safe.
The crude oil supertanker Torrey Canyon left Kuwait on 19 February 1967 for Milford Haven in Pembrokeshire. Her crew were...
Category: Articles
Sea Sweeper
Coverack, Cornwall.—At 12.12 on the afternoon of the 12th of June, 1955, the life-boat honorary secretary noticed that the local fishing boat Sea Sweeper, which had a crew of four, appeared to have broken down about half a mile from...
Shades of 'The Boyhood of Raleigh'1 Bob Walton, Membership Secretary, Tells Linda Catlin, Shoreline's 20,000/7; Member, of the Sea and Ships and Lifeboats
Shades of 'The Boyhood of Raleigh'1 Bob Walton, membership secretary, tells Linda Catlin, Shoreline's 20,000/7; member, of the sea and ships and lifeboats. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs