LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annarchy
In storm force winds and darkness, the yacht Annarchy had engine problems and was steering an erratic course. The Moelfre crew had to manoeuvre the lifeboat close enough to the yacht for Rod Pace to jump aboard and regain control of the...
How the Cornish Lifeboat Appeal Was Launched
EARLY in 1972 the Committee of Management of the RNLI decided to try to raise an extra £50,000 net in Cornwall to complete the total bill for the new Sennen and Falmouth boats.
Commander L. F. L. Hill, RD, RNR, Staff...
Category: Articles
Donaghadee Lifeboat the 44Ft Waveney Arthur and Blanche Harris Set Out at 0929 on Monday January 21 to Go to the Help of the Danish Liquified Gas Carrier Regitze Tholstrup Aground North of L
Donaghadee lifeboat, the 44ft Waveney Arthur and Blanche Harris, set out at 0929 on Monday January 21 to go to the help of the Danish liquified gas carrier Regitze Tholstrup aground north of Larne Harbour in an easterly gale and very rough... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Long Service to Oil Tanker
WHEN the 61,000 ton Liberian tanker Torrey Canyon went aground on the Seven Stones on the 18th March, 1967, two life-boats were called out. Both spent many hours at sea.
The first report to reach a life-boat station came...
Category: Services
People and Places
Model effort Gordon Davies, of Waunwen, Swansea, a distant relation of William Gammon, coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat Edward Prince of Wales, lost on service 40 years ago, has recently completed a labour of love in his memory, a 12th scale...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (25)
OCT. 18TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. An aeroplane was reported to hare fallen into the sea in flames, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £15 7s. 6d..
No Need for Further Insurance
A FOREIGNER asked to contribute on London life-boat day waved the collector aside saying, "No thank you, I have alreadv been saved.".
Category: Articles
Award for National Essay Competition
of Scarborough, (see page 254). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fifty Medals for Gallantry (5)
On the 12th November, 1939, the Whitby life-boat rescued the crew of eighteen of H.M. Minesweeper Cape Comorin.
COXSWAIN JAMES MURFIELD was awarded the silver medal.
LIFE-BOATMAN JOHN R. DRYDEN, acting...
Category: Articles
Coxswain Adam Mcleod, Thurso
Coxswain Adam McLeod, of Thurso, who died in June of this year, had then been coxswain for two years, and had previously been second coxswain for thirteen years. During those fifteen years the Thurso life-boats had rescued 117 lives. When...
Category: Obituaries