LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Books
The Story of the Weston-Super- Mare Lifeboats The Story of the Eastbourne Lifeboats Written and published by Jeff Morris Two more in the series of detailed 'station history' booklets written and produced by Jeff Morris - with Dave...
Category: Articles
Spanish Steamer Wrecked at Coverack
ON the night of the 3rd of November, 1951, a south-west gale was blowing on the south coast of Cornwall, with heavy rain. The night was very dark. A small Spanish steamer the Mina Cantiquin, of Gijon, with a crew of seventeen, was steaming...
Category: Services
A Brave Schoolgirl
A Holiday at Skipsea LAST summer a fifteen-year-old school- girl was holidaying at Skipsea, near Bridlington. Her home was at Baildon near Shipley, and she was staying with her parents at Sea Cabin Bungalow, Green Lane, which stood near the...
Category: Articles
The American Steamer Byron Darnton, of Baltimore (2)
MARCH 16TH - 17TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. Soon after eleven o’clock on the night of the 16th the Southend coastguard reported to the Campbeltown life-boat station that a ship was ashore...
Letters And Reader Information
Letters To add your opinion, write to The Editor at RNLI Headquarters or email [email protected] Dear Editor As a landlocked landlubber, I sometimes wondered why I joined the RNLI as a Shoreline Member many years ago. I was so...
Category: Correspondence
Services by Shore-Boats (5)
SIDMOUTH, DEVONSHIRE. At about 8.40 P.M. on the 22nd March, 1939, an aeroplane came down in the sea off Sidmouth. A westerly wind was blowing with gusts at thirty miles an hour and sleet showers. The sea was choppy. The Exmouth life-boat,...
Category: Services
Marathon Effort
The Flora London Marathon is one of the UK’s most breathtaking fundraising events and this year 200 people ran as part of Team RNLI. Their combined and considerable efforts raised approximately £300,000, most of which will go towards...
Category: Articles
The Sixth International Life-Boat Conference
THE sixth international life-boat con- ference was held at Ostend from July 23rd to the 25th, 1951, on the invita- tion of the Belgian Administration of Marine. M. H. de Vos, the Director General of the Administration, pre- sided. Fifteen...
Category: Meetings
Yvonne
Plymouth.
ON the 3rd October the Plymouth Lifeboat was launched shortly before 10 P.M., in a strong southerly gale, with heavy rain and a very heavy sea, to the help of a vessel which had been driven ashore on the eastern...
Notice to Subscribers
IT was stated in the first Number of this Journal, that it would be published monthly, or occasionally, as circumstances might point out, and that it would be sold at the lowest possible price that would cover the expense of paper and...
Category: Articles