LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Left and Top: the Sinking Yacht
Left and top: The sinking yacht is caught on mobile phone camera from the lifeboat while a survivor makes it to the liferaft. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Front Cover
t cover: i RAF Sea King helicopter hovers above i class lifeboat. The Will, during h 1998 me Royal Bank of Scotland/ ; Tomlmson. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Alan Chips In
Alan Smith from Harry Ramsden's serves up a feast to Kessock lifeboat crew members (1 to r); Norman MacRae, Donnie MacRae, Campbell Ross and Jacky MacLeod. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
EVER READY
Out for an evening walk with his children on 13 March, training, experience and teamwork helped an off-duty lifeboat helm save a life
Brian Niland had had a busy day. After finishing work as a medical rep, he’d picked his...
Category: Articles
The Red Cross of the Sea
"Peace hath her Victories No less renown'd than War."
THUS wrote the great poet of a war which he deemed, as we do our mighty conflict of to-day, one of Liberty against Tyranny, of the oppressed against...
Category: Articles
Memoir of the Late Rear-Adml. Washington, F.R.S.
BY RICHARD LEWIS, ESQ., BARRISTER-AT-LAW.
IT is with deep regret we record the death of REAR-ADMIRAL WASHINGTON, Hydrographer of the Admiralty. He died at Havre, on the 16th September last, after a painful illness of...
Category: Obituaries
Services of the Life-Boats In September, October and November, 1951. 65 Lives Rescued
DURING September life-boats went out on service 68 times and rescued 25 lives.
TWICE AGROUND Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—At 5.50 in the evening of the 1st of September, 1951, the coastguard reported that the yacht Alethea II, of...
Category: Services
Heye P.
Coaster on rocks A VESSEL on the rocks at Prawle Point was reported to the honorary secretary of Salcombe lifeboat station by Prawle Point Coastguard at 2233 on Sunday December 16, 1979. Less than ten minutes later Salcombe's 47ft Watson...
Surfboards
Surfer saved by D class in appal l|n g conditionsTramore's D class inflatable saved a surfer on 6 June lastyear in conditions which tested both the lifeboat and her crew to the limit.
In conditions which turned out to...
A Sailboard
Windsurfer saved in raging gale Windsurfer Peter Waters was enjoying a great day in the surf at Porthcawl on 26 January 2002 when a sudden wind knocked him through his sail and into the water. 'I was about half a mile out to sea,' he...