LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Five Members of Rayners Lane
Five members of Rayners Lane branch raised more than £300 in a six-mile sponsored canoe paddle on the Grand Union Canal in Hertfordshire on Saturday June 19—and it rained! The team took it in turn to paddle the canoe, generously donated... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shoreline Club No 13 at Rochford
Shoreline club no. 13, at Rochford, gives tremendous, regular help to the local branch. The club's 1984 annual pram race, in which 14 teams called at eight pubs to drink half a pint at each, raised £200 for Rochford branch. The race... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Friendly Rivalry: Kim Robertson (Right) Challenged Mick Hewitt
Friendly rivalry: Kim Robertson (right) challenged Mick Hewitt to a 100 yard electric wheelchair race along the promenade as part of Walton and Frinton's lifeboat week. The race was started by a hooter blown by Coxswain Denis Finch and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Getting the Message
The equipment in everyday use aboard a lifeboat has developed to the point where it has evolved its own jargon, almost as arcane as the language of the sea itself. In this, the first of an occasional series on the technicalities of lifeboats...
Category: Articles
24 hours on the Thames
Tower Lifeboat Station is the busiest in the UK. To find out exactly what life is like for the crew members that save lives on the capital's most famous waterway, Writer Catherine Richards spent 24 hours shadowing a shift ....
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Stella Arcturus
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 3.54 on the afternoon of the 8th of December, 1954, the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that the trawler Stella Arcturus, of Hull, had reported that she had gone ashore on the Binks and needed a tug. At 4.5 the...
A Small Fishing Boat
On the evening of the 4th January a S.W. gale was blowing with a heavy sea and rain, and as a small fishing boat, with one man on board, had not returned, it was thought advisable to send a life-boat out to search. The No. 1 motor life-boat,...
A Motor Fishing Boat
JUNE 7TH. - FENIT, CO. KERRY. At two in the morning a message was received that a motor fishing boat, with five men on board, was adrift in Tralee Bay. A fresh to strong south-west-to-west wind was blowing and the sea was choppy. At 2.20...
Ballasting Boats
IT will be remembered that some months ago there occurred a lamentable boat accident in the River Thames, when no less than ten promising youths, cadets on board a training-ship, were drowned. The boat was under sail at the time, and was...
Category: Articles
Here and There
THE GLASGOW Lewis and Harris Association Cup, presented annually to the person or persons who during the year had done most to bring credit or honour to the island, was awarded last year to Coxswain Calum MacDonald and the crew of Stornoway...
Category: Articles