LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Return the Favour
A painting of the Regina Mary lifeboat at Looe, donated by kind-hearted artist Merv Beaver, has raised over £500 for the RNLI.
The oil painting was raffled at the end of June during Looe lifeboat station's Seafront... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Penlee: the Champagne Bottle Breaks As the 52Ft Arun Mabel Alice Was Named In Newlyn on July 18
Penlee: The champagne bottle breaks as the 52ft Arun Mabel Alice was named in Newlyn on July 18. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Andrew Besley. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Black Pearl
FIFTY HELPERS TO LAUNCH LIFE-BOAT Hastings, Sussex. At 7.10 p.m. on Monday the 19th of August, 1963, the Fairlight coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht appeared to be in difficulties near the breakwater at Hastings....
An American Fortress Aeroplane (3)
OCTOBER 17TH. - CROMER, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. Ten men had baled out from an American Fortress aeroplane, but no trace of them was found, although aeroplanes and other vessels joined in the search. - Rewards : Cromer, £9 3s. 6d. ; and...
The S.S. Lynx
MOETE BAY, NQBTH DEVON;—The s.s.
Lynx, of Cardiff, bound from that port to Portreath, with coal, sprang a leak when off Morthoe Point, on the 6th March, and with the view of saving the lives of the crew, the master ran her...
The S.S. Baron Graham and The S.S. Duero
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. — On the night of the 10th February members of the Civic Guard from Waterford brought news that the s.s.
Baron Graham, of Ardrossan, was in distress about eight miles off the Waterford coast. A...
Texaco Caribbean, of Panama, Caracas
CHANNEL SEARCH It was learnt at 4.15 a.m. on 11th January, 1971, that an explosion had taken place at sea about one and a half miles west of the Varne Bank and that a tug was making for the spot. It was later established that the tanker...
The Life-Boat Was the John and Sarah Eliza Stych, of Padstow, Temporarily Stationed at St. Ives
The Life-Boat Was The John and Sarah Eliza Stych of Padstow Temporarily Stationed at St Ives. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Criticisms of Life-Boat Services
WHEN the character of the services performed by the life-boats, and the dangers and diffi- culties which they have to encounter, are taken into consideration, it is rather matter for astonishment that they do not frequently fail in effecting...
Category: Articles
Black Cat
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 10.45 on the morning of the 22nd of June, 1958, a message was received from the motor vessel Channel Trader, on passage from Newhaven to Guernsey, that shehad passed the fishing boat Black Cat three miles north...