LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 3.5 p.m.

on 6th November, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing coble had broken down one mile south west of the North Smithie buoy. The life-boat William Henry and...

THE photograph on the cover is of Coxswain Alfred Cadman, D.S.M., of Dover. Although he was appointed coxswain as recently as August, 1960, the demands on the Dover life-boat have been such that since his appointment she has been launched...

The 7-ixex Club, supporters ofPewsey branch, used the white horse they had made for Pewsey Carnival to raise money for the lifeboat service, towing it on wheels from Pewsey via Salisbury, Downton, Fordingbridge, Ringwood and Christclnirch to... - View image in PDF

A second attempt a fortnight later began with a favourable light wind and ended in thick fog when the crew could barely see the length of the boat. 'All kinds of ghostly shapes and spectral ships, all manner of imaginary noises and...

SOME astounding figures have been recorded of the services of life-boats in 1961. The month of August this year was, for instance, by far the busiest month the service has ever known since it was founded 137 years ago. During the month...

0700 on "eclipse day', 11 August 1999, and Falmouth's Severn The Will waits to put to sea on stand-by. Already the dawn sunshine has given way to a heavy overcast sky.. - View image in PDF

oLkic- J R R The Lord of the Ring** and The Hobbit by J. R.R. Tolkien Tt)e rtP TWO WORTH £103.00 Yours FREE All you pay is postage and packing Folio '""S POLIO T HOUSANDS of booklovers have voted J.R.R. Tolkien's Thf...

At eight in the morning of 20th October the No. 2 Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Matthew Middlewood was launched in a moderate, but increasing, N.N.E. gale, with a heavy sea, as the motor fishing coble Brittania, of Flamborough, had not...