LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fleetwood Sea Cadet Harbour Launch
OUT ALL DAY Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 11.40 a.m. on i8th June, 1965, the coastguard reported that the Royal Navy frigate H.M.S. Blackpool, which was anchored off Blackpool, had the Fleetwood sea cadet harbour launch alongside, badly damaged....
A Beach Punt
SOUTHWOLD, SUFFOLK. — One of the beach pants belonging to Sonthwold was engaged in shipping pilots during a strong breeze on the 4th April, and at 1.30 A.M., the wind haying freshened to a gale, and a heavy sea breaking on the shoals,...
St. Helens
JAN. 23RD. - TORBAY, DEVON. During the morning the auxiliary ketch St. Helens, of London, broke from her moorings in Brixham Outer Harbour in a severe N.W. gale, and drove ashore on the beach near the life-boat station. A motor trawler got...
The Crew
John Stewart Campbeltown coxswain John Stewart has been awarded Miss Maud Smith's Reward for Courage in Memory of John, 7th Earl of Hardwicke for the rescue of two people from the fishing vessel Sincerity (Summer 2001 issue, p. 10). The...
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Five Fishing Boats
MARCH. 8TH. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE. During the morning a strong W.N.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea, and the fresh water from the flooded river Girvan was making the harbour bar extremely dangerous. Five fishing boats from Girvan and two...
Some More Gifts
From Warsaw THREE hundred and fifty-four zloty, ten groszy (£12 18s. 5d.), partly contri- buted to a life-boat collecting box at the British Passport Office, and partly the proceeds of a bridge tournament organized by two English ladies...
Category: Donations
SPECIAL DELIVERY
‘MY YOUNGEST SON …DROWNED IN A RIP TIDE’
‘The Silent Epidemic’ in the latest issue of Lifeboat evokes powerful feelings. 10 years ago my youngest son who was participating in a turtle wildlife rescue programme in Costa Rica,...
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The Flamborough Life-Boat Friendly Forester Going Out on Exercise In a South East Gale and Snow-Storm on 12Th March 1969
The Flamborough life-boat Friendly Forester going out on exercise in a south east gale and snow-storm on 12th March, 1969.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Unlucky Break:
Unlucky break: having landed safely after his sponsored parachute jump, disaster struck Stan Todd while he was running to gather up his parachute—he tripped on a furrow and broke his ankle! Stan, who is a member of Brighton's lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A turn for the worse
Three anglers were about a mile out to sea in a 5m pleasureboat in Hartlepool Bay on Sunday 21 September. With their fishing rods poised for a bite, they were hoping for a good catch.
But their mood changed when the wind...
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