LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats In October, November and December, 1953. 85 Lives Rescued
OCTOBER DURING October life-boats were launched 42 times and rescued 16 lives.
DOCTOR TAKEN TO SHETLAND ISLAND Aith, Shetlands.—At 2.35 on the after- noon of the 2nd of October, 1953, the doctor at...
Category: Services
Feature: Crew Abroad
Greek tragedy? Never could five members of the Redcar lifeboat station have imagined that their sailing holiday, 1,300 nautical miles from home, would turn into a life-saving rescue mission involving great skill and...
Category: Articles
The Fundraisers
CAMPAIGN h LIH Rt AL ALL Somerset branch of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) held its annual festival at Minehead last year - raising over £1,000 for local good causes.
Minehead lifeboat guild was a major beneficiary...
Category: Articles
Michael
Force 11 gusting12 HEARING FROM Fishguard Coastguard at 2200 on Monday, January 13, that Michael of Famagusta, whose engine had broken down, was drifting about 18 miles off the entrance to Waterford, Dunmore East honorary secretary gave...
A Catamaran
When a catamaran capsized on 15th July the Margate, Kent, life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) went out in a north westerly gale with a very rough sea.
At about 11.30 a.m. the Trinity House cutter Penlee reported...
An Aeroplane (72)
SEPTEMBER 21ST. APPLEDORE, DEVON. An aeroplane was reported to have crashed eight miles north of Hartland Point, and at four in the afternoon the motor life-boat Violet Armstrong was launched. A squally N.W. by W. wind was blowing, with a...
Falmouth
Seven saved FALMOUTH, Sunday May 24, 1987: The 56ft yacht Sule Skerry was in the Helford River with a heavy swell running when a rope fouled her propeller and she was driven into a rocky cleft at the foot of the cliffs at Durgan, near... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ross Tern
Trawler Snatch WHIN the Longhope, Orkney, lifeboat station was informed at 11.54 p.m. on February 9 that the trawler Ross Tern was ashore on Troma Island and was breaking up, the lifeboat crew mustered in good time.
As the...
Life-Boat Families. The Stantons and Stephensons of Boulmer, Northumberland
By Hugh Stephenson, Honorary Secretary of the Boulmer Branch, and a member of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
THERE are thirty-four houses in the village of Boulmer. Nine are occupied by Stephensons and...
Category: Articles
A Small Boat
Outboard failed A SMALL BOAT which had fired a hand flare off Crackington Haven was reported to the honorary secretary of Bude lifeboat station by Hartland Coastguard at 1500 on Saturday May 29. Maroons were fired and at 1505 the D class...