LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Good Scouts
Third Walsall Sea Scouts and Beavers have been fundraising for Abersoch lifeboats since 1994 - raising over £400 in that time. A collection tin is kept at their HQ and the beavers are encouraged to pop in their one and two pence pieces... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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FEBRUARY 17TH. - SHERINGHAM, AND WELLS, NORFOLK. Three airmen had baled out of an American Liberator aeroplane which later crashed on fire. The Wells lifeboat searched in the morning but found nothing, and after a parachute had been reported...
Cavabien
Atlantic saves five from speedboat capsized in heavy surf Helmsman Brian Gould of the Cullercoats lifeboat has been awarded the Thanks of the Institution on Vellum for saving five people from their capsized speedboat on 8 April 1995.Crew...
Blackpool Illuminated
Jon Jones visits Blackpool's new all-singing, all-dancing lifeboat station and gets thoroughly rained on in the process..
Blackpool, with its Pleasure Beach, Illuminations and Golden Mile of amusements, night clubs,...
Category: Articles
Obituaries
Obituaries With deep regret we record the following deaths: OCTOBER 1990 Mrs H. Parker, president of Bolton Ladies' guild from 1974 until her death. She was chairman of the guild from 1958 to 1968 and vicepresident from 1968 to 1974.<...
Category: Obituaries
U.B. Prince
Injured seaman rescued Eastbourne lifeboat was alerted on 3 March 2000 when a boat worker, aboard a cargo vessel bound for Equador, was forced to head inland for emergency surgery in a bid to save his fingers.
The Polish...
Ship to shore
Remarkable advances in technology mean that sailors are no longer isolated from the rest of the world while at sea
Throughout history sailors would have to go many months without news from home...
Category: Articles
September
Launches 64. Lives rescued 62.
SEPTEMBER 1ST. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At 5.45 A.M. the naval author-ities at Cromer asked for the life-boat to go out, as an aeroplane was in the sea between...
Category: Services
The Converted Motor Fishing Vessel Kathmar
Engine broken down RED FLARES fired by a vessel about a mile south of Boddin Point, four miles south of the lifeboat station, were reported to the honorary secretary of Montrose by HM Coastguard at 1310 on Tuesday March 28.
An Inflatable Dinghy
Dinghy adrift MOELFRE'S 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat launched at 1250 on Tuesday August 20, 1985, after Holyhead coastguard reported that two divers who were working on the 100-year-old wreck of the Royal Charter were beingblown out...