LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Christmas Festivities
LAST Christmas a number of life-boats again took out Christmas parcels from their towns to men on neighbouring lightships. The Weymouth life-boat took them to the Shambles, Selsey to the Owers, Barry Dock to the Breaksea, Margate to the...
Category: Articles
People and Places
On Station The following lifeboats have taken up station and relief fleet duties: ALL-WEATHER Ramsey - Mersey 12-14 (ON 1171) Ann and James Ritchie on 12 July 1991.
North Sunderland - Mersey 12-16 (ON 1173) Grace Darling on...
Category: Articles
Twenty-Two's Watch
LIFE-BOATMEN all over the country at one time or another have read about, or even participated in, a rescue carried out by an R.A.F. helicopter.
From time to time, too, helicopters make the headlines, not for some dramatic...
Category: Articles
Dollard (1)
Silver service at Cleethorpes and NumberIt is a rare occasion that Cleethorpes and Number crews work together on shouts. Only 5 miles apart as the crow flies, the two stations couldn't be more different.
Cleethorpes...
A Royal Air Force Machine
Hartlepool, Co. Durham, Runswick, and Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—4th December.
A Royal Air Force machine came down at sea at night, but could not be found, and the pilot was drowned.
—Rewards, Hartlepool, £...
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MAY 7TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. Four parachutes had been reported falling into the sea, but nothing could he found. - Rewards, £3 12s. 6d..
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Reported the much lamented death on the 2nd instant of His Grace ALGERNON GEORGE PERCY, Sixth DUKE...
Category: Committee
Vertical take off
The volunteers aboard an inshore lifeboat faced nearly overwhelming conditions one day last March …
The shipping and inshore waters forecast at 5.20am warned of the impending...
Category: Articles
April
Launches 42 Lives rescued 16 APRIL 1ST. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMAPRIL BERLAND. At 1.40 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that the local fishing coble Fisher Lass was overdue. There was a dense fog, and a heavy swell was breaking on the...
Category: Services
Rising to the challenge
January’s storms called our volunteers into action in hazardous conditions that pushed our people and craft to their limits
The New Year had hardly begun when Penlee and The Lizard lifeboat...
Category: Articles