LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
IRB Launches
Rescues by IRBs in March were undertaken by the following stations: SOUTH-EAST DISTRICT Whitstable, Kent - At 6 p.m. on 26th March, 1966, following the completion of a previous service, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a...
Category: Services
Supertaff
Three rescued after yacht is rolled in storm force windsA Courtmacsherry Harbour trocious weather conditions greeted Courtmacsherry Harbour's Trent class lifeboat when she put to sea on Saturday 24 October, headed for a yacht which had...
Fishing Cobles
NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.—Thirty two fishing-cobles proceeded to their fishing ground about 18 or 20 miles distant at 3.30 on the morning of the 14th. January. A strong wind sprung up from the S.E. at about 7 o'clock, and by 9...
(left) Helen Turnbull brings Bridget Carmel into the Fleetwood Channel as the light begins to fade.
(left) Helen Turnbull brings Bridget Carmel into the Fleetwood Channel as the light begins to fade.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Minehead's First
Readers might be interested in this picture of Minehead's first lifeboat, George Leicester.
In my connection with a rural museum, I was asked to print some pictures from glass negatives - among them I found this picture... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Adventures of a Life-Boat Flotilla
ON 15th April, 1909, a flotilla of three Life-boats, in two of which motor engines had been installed, were despatched by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION from the London Docks en route by sea for Thurso...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches. 1st January to 31st March
Greater London.
CITY.—Annual meeting at the Mansion House, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor in the chair. Amount collected in 1932 £6,241, as compared with £7,647 in 1931.
CLAPHAM.—Whist drive....
Category: Branches
The Greek Freighter Athina B.
Twenty-six rescued HM COASTGUARD at Shoreham MRSC telephoned the honorary secretary of Shoreham Harbour lifeboat station at 0817 on Monday January 21 asking that the lifeboat be placed on standby; a merchant vessel, the 3,500-ton Greek...
Outrageous Grace
Outrageous Grace
Taking the long way home
By John Otterbacher
Review by
Michael Masters
Outrageous Grace tells the true story of the author’s struggle against death – and...
Category: Articles
Antoinette
PORT ISAAC and PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
—Oa the morning of the 2ad January a barque, which proved to be the Antoinette, of St. John, New Brunswick, bound from Newport for Santos with coals, was observed about eight miles distant...