LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
48 Hours of Gale
66 Launches, 7 lives rescued, 21 vessels savedSEPTEMBER WAS USHERED IN by a Week of very high winds rising to gale and storm force—a week when there were many calls on the lifeboat service all round our coasts. Reports of boats in trouble...
Category: Services
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Rapid response MOTOR MECHANIC GRAHAM WALKER of Wells lifeboat station was on duty in the boathouse on the morning of Sunday June 29, 1986, when he noticed a man and young woman cut off by the flooding tide on Bob Halls...
The S.S. Lightfoot
NOV. 24TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
At 11.36 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the S.S. Lightfoot, of Newcastle, had stranded S.W. of Longsand Buoy. A S.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. At...
Letters
Ex-lifeboat A photograph appeared in the spring 1984 issue of THE LIFEBOAT of Hartlepool lifeboat towing in three fishing boats, one of which was Sea Spell. I believe Sea Spell, formerly known as Ladybird, to be an ex-RNLI lifeboat.
Category: Correspondence
Wreck Ashore
Is a man's life worth four pounds seven shillings and twopence ? The wind moans and pipes through the trees n the garden, and comes rumbling down the chimneys of our lodging by the sea. There rises from the beach a solemn roar of waters....
Category: Articles
Miss Alice Johnston
Miss Alice Johnston, who lives in Sussex, it can now be disclosed, gave £25,000 towards the cost of the 52-foot prototype Arun class life-boat which was depicted on page 109 of the July Journal. On 7th July Miss Johnston, who is 83, was...
Category: Donations
(Left Below) to Commemorate a Favourite Customer Albert Howes the Talbot Hotel at Ripley Surrey
(Left, below) To commemorate a favourite customer, Albert Howes, the Talbot Hotel at Ripley, Surrey, has raised £3,000 to buy a radar for a lifeboat. The target was finally reached on Easter Saturday when a publicity D class lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rnlb the Duke of Cornwall
RNLB The Duke of Cornwall, a 52ft Burnett class lifeboat, until recently stationed at The Lizard/Cadgwith, on passage between Hayle and St Ives. Well, actually, it's a model of her and she and two other lifeboat models, the creations of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs Osman Gabriel
It is with great sorrow that we announce the death early last October of Mrs. Osman Gabriel. Mrs. Gabriel was herself the generous donor of an Atlantic 21 inshore lifeboat, and it was in her honour that the second 37' Rother class...
Category: Obituaries
About 2000 People Gathered on Moelfre Beach Anglesey on Saturday June 7 to Celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Lifeboat Station a Service of Thanksgiving and Re-Dedication Was Conducte
About 2,000 people gathered on Moelfre beach, Anglesey, on Saturday June 7, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the lifeboat station. A service of thanksgiving and re-dedication was conducted by His Grace, The Archbishop of Wales, during... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs