LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A British Miles Martinet Aeroplane
JUNE 19TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK. A British Miles Martinet aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but only an oil patch was found. - Rewards, £15 10s. 3d..
Rescue
RescUe Here is just a handful of incidents from around the uK and Roi to give an insight into the thousands of lifeboat rescues carried out each year. see pages 20–27 for rescues marked and page 13 for a roundup of lifeguard activity....
Category: Articles
On Their Bikes
Port Isaac crew members Richard Hambly and Greg Hingley raised £528 by cycling over 250 miles round Cornwall, visiting every Cornish lifeboat station.
The seven-day trek started at Bude and Richard and Greg were... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Irb Launches on Service During the Months June, July and August, 1970
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aberdovey, Merionethshire Abersoch, Caernarvonshire Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire Amble, Northumberland Arran (Lamlash), Buteshire Atlantic College, Glamorganshire Bangor, Co. Down Barmouth, Merionethshire Barrow,...
Category: Services
(Below) There's Many a Slip on the Way to the Horse's Head! Just One of the Games Some Old Some New Thought Up By Happisburgh Branch to Test the Skills of Those
(Below) There's many a slip on the way to the horse's head! Just one of the games, some old, some new, thought up by Happisburgh branch to test the skills of those attending its fete in May. At the end of the day £218.16 had... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Letters
Branding reviewviews for Issue No 563 has arrived and read; an excellent issue, presentation and contents.
It has a great practical and interesting 'buzz' about it all.
The Lifeboat College must...
Category: Correspondence
Cover Picture
by Joanne O'Brien/Format The medallists at the 1996 Presentation of Awards, pictured at Tower Bridge before the ceremony. With them are the family rescued by Little and Broad Haven's D class and the two girls plucked to safety from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Standing By All Night In Gale
AT 1.40 on the afternoon of the 27th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed Coxswain Hugh Jones of Beaumaris that the Greek tanker Essar I was drifting with engine trouble and with her engine room flooded one mile north of Point Lynas....
Category: Services
The Great Gale of February, 1871
Memorial Service at Bridlington.
THIS year, as for many years past, Bridlington held a memorial service for the six Bridlington life-boatmen who lost their lives in the great gale of 10th February, 1871.
Category: Articles
Fydlyn Bay
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 9.10 p.m.
on I4th May, 1967, information was received that the motor fishing vessel Fydlyn Bay, on passage from Morecambe Bay to Holyhead, had developed engine trouble but was expected to arrive at 2...