LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pollard Presents
Frampton Cotterell and district branch together with Homeworld invited actor Chris Chittell, otherwise known as Eric Pollard of television's Emmerdale to present the prizes in a local school lifeboat painting... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
James Macgill
James Macgill, chairman and deputy launching authority of the Arran (Lamlash) lifeboat station. Mr Macgill was chairman of the branch from 1976 and deputy launching authority from 1974 until his death. He was presented with a statuette in...
Category: Obituaries
The Cullercoats Motor Life-Boat
APRIL 22ND. - TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
The Cullercoats motor lifeboat had capsized on exercise, but the Tynemouth life-boat was unable to find any of her crew, six of whom were lost.-Rewards, £9 3s. (A full account...
Mrs Simons Receives Her Cruise Prize
Mrs Simons receives her cruise prize from Tony Smith, Senior Sales Executive of Travelscope, accompanied by volunteer Crew Members James Morris and Nick Prout and Tractor Driver Ricky Homes, in front of Bumham-on-Sea's Atlantic 75... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Three Aeroplanes
APRIL 20TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A German aeroplane had been shot down in flames, but the only survivor was picked up by another boat. The lifeboat then learnt that two British aeroplanes had come down and joined in the search for...
Gardar and Miguel de Larrinaga
MAY 21ST. -WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE.
The trawler Gardar, of Iceland, had been sunk in collision with the steamer Miguel de Larrinaga, but the latter picked up the majority of the Gardar’s crew, and the lifeboat found only...
Lost crew remembered
Wreaths were laid to mark the 50th anniversary of the Broughty Ferry lifeboat disaster on 8 December.
Eight crew members lost their lives while going to the aid of the North Carr lightship off St Andrew’s Bay. They were...
Category: Articles
Early start
27 October 2012: The volunteer crew at Castletownbere were denied a Saturday morning lie-in, launching at 5am to a 33m Spanish fishing trawler, which had grounded on the western point of Bere Island, Co Cork. All...
Category: Articles
Anglers brought to safety
27 June: St Agnes’s D class lifeboat Blue Peter IV is pictured towing an angling boat to safety. The vessel had lost power from both engines 4 miles off St Agnes Beach.
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (7)
FEBRUARY 17TH. - KILLYBEGS, CO. DONEGAL. An aeroplane had crashed in the sea north of the Stags of Broadhaven, Co.
Mayo, but. the lifeboat and an R.A.F. rescue ship could find no survivors. The...