LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy (2)
Overdue LATE ON THE EVENING of Thursday June 14, 1979, Fife Police informed Forth Coastguard that a flashing light was being investigated in Largo Bay and that a 9ft dinghy with three anglers on board had been reported...
The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra-buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
Sunbeam Chaser
BRONZE MEDAL AT 0100 ON OCTOBER 16, 1987 Portland Coastguard contacted Lt Cdr B F Morris, honorary secretary of Weymouth lifeboat station, to inform him that a 40ft catamaran, 12 miles south of Portland Bill, was stationary under bare poles....
The Rather Nice Company
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Four Attempts to Go Alongside Yawl
ON the morning of the 1st June, 1961, Mr. E. R. Copeman, the honorary sec- retary of the Teesmouth branch, was travelling with his wife on the coast road towards Redcar when his wife noticed a yacht close inshore in broken water. Mr. Copeman...
Category: Services
Jane
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 2 A.M. on the 16th August, 1939, a message was received from the Wyke Regis coastguard that a small yacht was showing red flares a quarter of a mile east of Portland Bill. The weather was fine and the sea calm. The motor...
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
It is not only to our Life-boat workers, that we are indebted for help in raising funds. Numbers of the men and women who take part in the sterner side of Life-boat work on the coast have given us generous help on the financial side as well....
Category: Articles
Brittania Rescue
•' We've been voted road rescue 'Best Buy' for the 4th time in a row by the UK's leading consumer testing magazine, that's just one of the reasons why the RNLI has made us their official membership motoring scheme for...
Category: Advertisement
Principal Event In Lyme Regis Lifeboat Week's Spectacular Programme Last July Was the First National Hang-Kite Flying Championship
Principal event in Lyme Regis lifeboat week's spectacular programme last July was the first national hang-kite flying championship.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Titanic Team Up
Gravesend branch teamed up with a local supermarket during the end of its fundraising week - raising £595 for lifeboat coffers.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs