LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Imbibing on the Sands
"A party of trustees, with their wives and daughters, agree to meet at some commodious hotel in the vicinity of a life-boat station, the day is fine, and the party are perhaps themselves rowed out a couple of miles—a daring deed, which...
Category: Articles
Kirkpool, of West Hartlepool
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT FALMOUTH JANUARY 19TH. - FALMOUTH, CORNWALL. The Falmouth motor life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare arrived at her station from thebuilding yard on the 7th of January, 1940. Twelve days later, on the 19th, she...
Rambler, of Wexford
On the night of the 24th August the Life-boat Civil Service ren- dered a most gallant service to the crew of the schooner Rambler, of Wexford.
The Life-boat, on account of the tre- mendous seas, was quite unable to get...
Tusker Rock Joint Rescue
FOR a joint service to a sand dredger Coxswain Derek Scott, of the Mumbles life-boat, has been awarded the bronze medal of the Institution, and Helmsman Lindsey S. Knipe and crew members James Lock and Richard A. Comley, of the Porthcawl IRB...
Category: Services
'Cover Is Normally on the Lines of All Damage to Or Loss of the Craft
'Cover is normally on the lines of all damage to or loss of the craft. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Bridlington Cobles Serene, Eva Ann and Challenge (2)
Knockdown THE COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Flamborough lifeboat station on Monday January 23, 1984, that three Bridlington cobles, Serene, Eva Ann and Challenge, had been caught in worsening weather north of...
The Folk-Boat Huckleberry Finn
Weymouth, Dorset - At 6.50 p.m.
on 29th May, 1966, a yacht reported that the folk-boat Huckleberry Finn was dismasted and adrift about eight and a half miles south east of the Shambles lightvessel.
The...
"The Padstow Centenary": An Addition. The Silver Medallists of the Station
An article on the Padstow Station, which last year celebrated its Centenary, appeared in the Life-boat for last November, and particulars were given of the Medals which had been won by Padstow Life-boatmen. Several Medals have to be added to...
Category: Medals
The Faroese Fishing Vessel Albert Victor, of Vaag
APRIL. 10TH. - ABERDEEN. The Faroese fishing vessel Albert Victor, of Vaag, with a cargo of fish, arrived off Aberdeen during the afternoon and was instructed to go to Hull.
A pilot went on board her, but her compass was...
Train of Thought
Mike Floyd, Editor of THE LIFEBOAT, joins a crew preparing to take delivery of their new Mersey The lifeboat crew were about to haul a survivor aboard when an unmistakable siren broke into their ordered efforts.
'Fire!...
Category: Articles