LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Crusader
Margate, Kent.—At 2.16 in the afternoon of the 13th of December, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat, with two boys on board, appeared to have broken down and to be drifting seawards. She was one and a half miles...
An Ex-Landing Barge
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 11.28 in the morning of the 19th of March, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel two miles south-east of the North Goodwin Lightvessel, was drifting south, apparently with no crew, and the life-boat Prudential was...
The Panamanian Cargo Vessel Eastport
PANAMANIAN VESSEL ESCORTED IN GALE Wick, Caithness-shire. Wick harbour authority advised the honorary secretary at three o'clock on the afternoon of Thursday the 26th September, 1963, that the 628-ton Panamanian cargo vessel Eastport,...
Lifeboat Services
ONLY TOP OF YACHT'S MAST VISIBLE IN SEAS Five saved as yacht drifts on to shoal in gale force windsA service in severe conditions to a disabled yacht with five people aboard has earned Robert Wright, the coxswain of Pwllheli lifeboat,...
Category: Services
A weighty endeavour
When cargo ship Red Duchess’s engines failed in severe gales her crew were helpless to stop her drifting towards the rocky shore of the Isle of Rum …
Tuesday 2 November 2010 was what’s known...
Category: Articles
Adaptity
Plymouth, Devon.—At 10.2 on the morning of the 23rd of July, 1956, the Queen's Harbour Master, Plymouth, reported that a small coaster was not under control about two miles south- east of Mewstone. At 10.24 the life- boat Thomas Forehead...
Focus on . . . . Great Yarmouth and Gorleston
There she lies in the Gorleston boathouse—a sturdy, tubular creature, greyblack like the seals on the nearby Scroby sands who, at her approach, dive and slither into the sea, splashing noisily.
Jack Bryan, mechanic of the...
Category: Articles
Twenty Best Branches: A Correction
In the last issue of The Lifeboat, in the article on the twenty Branches with the highest collections in the year 1929- 30, Clacton-on-Sea was given, as having been sixteenth in the previous year, but as having fallen out of the first...
Category: Branches
Sutton-On-Sea and Trusthorpe Guild
Sutton-on-Sea and Trusthorpe guild have had their fund raising prowess recognised by the BBC. David Hamilton's music show on Radio 2 gives a 'Top Team Award' and chose these ladies for their record sum raised in 1982, which was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Working With a Helicopter
Working with a helicopter demands precision, and overcoming the racket and spray from the rotor's downwash. Plugged in to the lifeboat's intercom Charlie Hodson gives the chopper the green flag to come in (left), and the winchman... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs