LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Porpoise
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 2.35 on the afternoon of the 26th of October, 1957, the life-boat Edian Courtauld left her moorings to attend the ceremony at Clacton of scattering the ashes of the late Coxswain A. C. Potter, of...
Gale Service In the Pentland Firth
AT 11.40 on the night of the 6th of December, 1959, the honorary secre- tary of the Longhope, Orkneys, life- boat station, Dr. S. Peace, was told by the Kirkwall coastguard that the trawler George Robb was ashore on the Stacks of...
Category: Services
Not Unnoticed
The Blackpool life-boat coming ashore after searching for a swimmer.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Right) from Lifeboat Crew to Helicopter Crew: Presentation of 150th Anniversary Commemorative Mugs During Joint Exercise of Wells Lifeboat and Raf Coltishall Helicopter
(Right) From lifeboat crew to helicopter crew: presentation of 150th anniversary commemorative mugs during joint exercise of Wells lifeboat and RAF Coltishall helicopters.
More than 20,000 of these anniversary mugs made by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Line Up for the International Life-Boat Conference: Life-Boats of the R.N.L.I. Assembling at East Cowes In May, 1967, Before Setting Out for the 10th International Conference in Dinard and St. Malo from 5th-9th June
Line up for the International Life-boat Conference: life-boats of the R.N.L.I, assembling at East Cowes in May, 1967, before setting out for the 10th international conference in Dinard and St. Malo from 5th-9th June. Shown (from left to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Naming Ceremonies: Falmouth Tynemouth Campbeltown Holyhead and Harwich
Elizabeth Ann, Falmouth EXACTLY AT 2.30 pm on Tuesday June 10, two RNAS Culdrose helicopters streaming RNLI flags flew past the Customs House Quay, Falmouth, thus raising the curtain on the first of the 1980 lifeboat naming...
Category: Inaugurations
Contents
PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 314 NOTES OF THE QUARTER 315 COXSWAIN SWARTS 316 BRAVERY AT TORBAY 317 CHAIRMAN'S NAME 318 CONGRATULATIONS TO IRISH MECHANIC 319 MAUD SMITH AWARD 319 AWARDS TO TWO COXSWAINS 320 FOCUS ON ANGLE 321 CHRISTMAS CARDS...
Category: Articles
The 900-Ton Coaster Woodlark Aground on Rocks at Morte Point Woolacombe Devon on 13Th December 1967 and (Below) the Appledore Life-Boat Towing the Vessel
The 900-ton coaster Woodlark aground on rocks at Morte Point, Woolacombe, Devon, on 13th December, 1967, and (below) the Appledore life-boat towing the vessel clear.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Coaster Heye P Her Wheelhouse Swept Away a Total Wreck on Sea Gull Rock Prawle Point Photograph By Courtesy of W Budget!
The coaster Heye P, her wheelhouse swept away, a total wreck on Sea Gull Rock, Prawle Point. photograph by courtesy of W. Budget!. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Wild is the wind
The wind brings us clear blue skies and storms, makes a sailboat sail and chills us to the bone. But have you ever wondered where it comes from? Here the Lifeboat gives you a beginner’s guide to wind and its extreme effects<...
Category: Articles