LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

CRESSWELL, NORTHUMBERLAND.— A message by telephone was received by the Coxswain of the Life-boat, stating that a vessel was ashore S. of the Coastguard house, on the morning of the 15th August. A moderate breeze was then blowing from S.E.,...

BY NICHOLAS MICHELL, ESQ.* (With Ittuslration.') IT was a wild and lonely shore, Girded by rocks; the sea-bird's cry, The billow's everlasting roar, The tempest, howling through the sky, The only sounds—as though Despair Sat...

Mastercard team brave the rapids The team from The Royal Bank of Scotland, who manage the lifeboat MasterCard, have raised £1,450 in sponsorship for the RNLI - their team entered the RNLI's Whitewater rafting event held earlier this... - View image in PDF

APRIL 1994 Joe Martin BEM, coxswain/mechanic of Hastings lifeboat from 1971 to 1987. He first joined the crew in 1950, was mechanic from 1959 to 1969 and a travelling mechanic from 1969 until his appointment as coxswain..

Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 11.15 on the morning of the 16th of July, 1960, the coastguard passed on to the honor- ary secretary a report that a motor launch was firing red flares three miles east of Bembridge. The life-boat Jesse Lumb was...

Chips off the old block THE To celebrate 35 years in the fish and chip business, proprietors of the Round 'O' Fish Bar in Arbroath, Tony and Elaine Atkinson, offered customers a half price meal for a day and donated the takings of... - View image in PDF

SINCE the publication of the last number of our quarterly journal this popular movement has been extending its ope- rations north, south, east and west with marked success, and wherever a Life-boat Saturday demonstration or collection has...