LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sky Rocket
Comedy dinghy capsize nearly turns to tragedy in Lyme BayAs she watched her father and boyfriend capsizing their Laser dinghy, Sky Rocket, in Lyme Bay on the evening of 27 April 2002, Lisa King was at first amused. But each time it took a...
Some Ways of Raising Money
An analysis of the first total raised by Queensferry ladies' guild in the year 1981/82 makes interesting reading. Of the total £1,800, well over £100 was made from each of the following events; a country dance, a cheese and...
Category: Articles
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
THE fishwives of Cullercoats carried out their eighth consecutive collection on behalf of the Institution on 3rd August, when the Cullercoats Life-boat held its quarterly road exercise and launch.
As in previous years, they...
Category: Donations
Painting 'The Lynmouth Lifeboat Service 1899' By Mark R Myers Rsma
MY INTEREST IN PAINTING an incident from the famous Lynmouth lifeboat service to Forrest Hall goes back to the time when I was boatswain in the little square-rigged replica of Nonsuch ketch.
We were on passage from Falmouth...
Category: Articles
Services of Life-Boats
YOUHGHAL, IRELAND.—On the 8th February, the Norwegian barque Galatea ran on shore on the bar at the entrance of Youghal harbour, the captain having mistaken the port for Queenstown: a gale of wind was blowing at the time from the south, and...
Category: Services
Bookshelf
Four more volumes from Jeff Morris, the Honorary Archivist of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society, chronicling the life and times of various lifeboat stations - this time taking in three stations in England and one in...
Category: Articles
Wreck of the S.S. "Veronese."
IT was with signal pleasure that all friends of the Life-boat cause heard of the gallant and successful efforts made by the brave fishermen and boatmen of the Portuguese Life-boat Society in rescuing 200 persons from the ill-fated S.S....
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
THE months of May and June were exceptionally exacting ones for the life-boat service. In May there were as many as 78 service launches, ten more than the previous record figure for the month of May. The number of service launches in June...
Category: Articles
The Boulogne Life-Boat Society
ON the 16th of September, 1951, the Boulogne Life-boat Society inaugur- ated the new life-boat and station which have replaced those destroyed in the war. The ceremony was at- tended by the Dover life-boat, Southern Africa, and her crew, Mr....
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A 15 year old youth ran up to a group of fishermen by the harbour at Dunbar, East Lothian, and told them that his brother had been washed off the rocks at the harbour entrance.
Coxswain Robert Brunton, who was present with...