LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Trinity House Vessel Triton
Cidlercoats, Northumberland. At 8.37 on the morning of the 13th November, 1959, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a launch from the Trinity House vessel Triton was in difficulty and drifting. A strong south-easterly gale was blowing...
The Abertay Light-vessel
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—On the 30th January the crew of the Abertay light vessel were rescued.—Rewards: Thanks inscribed on vellum and £9 12s.
(A full account of this service, appeared in the last issue of The Life-boat...
The Morecambe Bay Lightvessel
On the night of the 24th of September, 1958, the Barrow, Lancashire, life-boat took a sick man off the Morecambe Bay lightvessel in very heavy seas. For this service, a full account of which appears on page 131, Coxwain Roland Moore was...
The Record Breakers:
The record breakers: on Sunday, June 14, 1987, in Dun Laoghaire Harbour, Eire, 329 sailing boats formed the shape of a sunflower beating the previous world record of 192 boats to moor alongside one another - a feat since ratified by the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Royal Bank of Scotland
Developing and supplying specialist equipment for over 4000 crew members is a very expensive exercise. The protective lifejacket pictured above for example costs £180, This is where you and a pair of scissors can help.
Category: Advertisement
The Russian Life-Boat Service
THE Russian Life-boat Society, of which the Empress is the Patron, has now 125 Life-boat Stations; of these 60 are on the river banks and 65 on the coast.
The Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION had in...
Category: Articles
From the brink
When hearing-impared surfer Isabella Denyer went out alone at Polzeath Beach, she soon became overpowered by waves. Here's what happened, in her own words
On a family holiday in Polzeath,...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Service at the Festival of Britain
THE Life-boat Service is represented at the Festival of Britain by its latest life-boat, the Sir Godfrey Baring, a 46-feet 9-in hes Watson cabin life-boat built for the station at the Humber, to which she will go when the Festival closes,...
Category: Articles
The Daunt Lightship
BaUycotton, Co. Cork.—This motor lifeboat was on service from the llth February to the 14th February, and rescued the crew of eight of the Daunt Lightship.—Rewards, gold medal, silver and bronze medals with vellums, binocular glass, letters...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain John Watters, who has been coxswain of the Fowey, Cornwall, life-boat since 1934. In 1947 Cox- swain Watters was awarded the bronze medal for the rescue of seven men from the auxiliary motor vessel...
Category: Articles