LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Corgi
ORG CHESHIRE'S CHAMPION 'Jimmy' hit the roads in 1998 on a nationwide tour to raise funds for The Cancer Research Campaign. Since then, he's raised a six figure sum. With your help he'll do even...
Category: Advertisement
Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats
Southwold and Dunwich ; Yarmouth, Isle of Wight; Great Yarmouth and Gorlcston ; Montrose.
DURING the past summer the Inaugural Ceremonies of five Motor Life-boats have taken place. The first of these, the inauguration of...
Category: Inaugurations
A Sailing Boat
Dunbar, Haddingtonshire, and Anstruther,, Fifeshire.—At 7.30 in the evening of the 26th of September, 1948, the Musselburgh police telephoned to the Dunbar life-boat station that a sailing boat with five boys on board had been driven out to...
Fundraising
It was around this time last year that the Oban lifeboat crew saved the life of an unconscious man who was trapped in icy waters between two fishing vessels in Oban harbour (see winter 2001/02 issue, p.18). The crew's pagers went off...
Category: Articles
Maritime Buoyage System A
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIGHTHOUSE AUTHORITIES Maritime Buoyage System A To be introduced in N.W.Europe & many other waters by stages starting in April 1977 (For explanation see page 200) LATERAL MARKS PORT HAND or or Top mark (if...
Category: Charts
A Fishing Coble
On the 31st August a fishing coble of South Shields had been out salmon fishing, when the N.E. wind freshened to the force of a strong breeze and the sea became heavy. In attempting to return to port the oars were broken and the two men in...
Struggling in a rip
BROADSTAIRS | 6 SEPTEMBER
Four girls were rescued at a busy Kent beach after they were spotted struggling against a rip current. RN Ll Lifeguard Alex Baxter was patrolling the water's edge at Broadstairs, when he...
Category: Articles
A Vessel (11)
MARCH 12TH. - ARBROATH, MONTROSE, ANGUS, AND ABERDEEN. On the afternoon of the 12th information was received at Arbroath and Montrose that an unknown vessel was in distress about twenty miles eastward of Arbroath.. A later message reported...
A Vessel (10)
MARCH 12TH. - ARBROATH, MONTROSE, ANGUS, AND ABERDEEN. On the afternoon of the 12th information was received at Arbroath and Montrose that an unknown vessel was in distress about twenty miles eastward of Arbroath.. A later message reported...
7. Two Visitors to Cowes Take the Opportunity for a Well-Earned Sit-Down!
1. Two visitors to Cowes take the opportunity for a well-earned sit-down! Photo Bob Kennovtn. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs