LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Monita
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire.—At 6.35 on the evening of the 6th of March, 1956, the watchman in the navigation barge which is moored off Lytham rang up to say that he had received a message that the S.S. Monita, of Stockholm, at anchor...
A NEW LEASE OF LIFE
They were crying out to be saved.’ It’s the kind of phrase you’ll hear from our lifeboat crews after
a rescue. But there is another group who share this noble narrative – the lifeboat restorers
They’re depending...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Open Days 1984 Poole
Poole Headquarters and Depot Thursday July 19 Friday July 20 Saturday July 21 10 am—6 pm 10 am—6 pm 10 am—6 pm FOR ITS 160th anniversary year, the RNLFs head office and depot will once again be open to the public and there will be an...
Category: Articles
George jumps at 97!
A 97-year-old man from Bournemouth is believed to have become the UK’s oldest skydiver after jumping out of a plane at 3,000m for the RNLI.
George Moyse jumped, in a tandem dive with an instructor, on 4 April. His grandson...
Category: Articles
April
APRIL Launches 77. Lives rescued 131.
APRIL 1ST. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 11.53 P.M. on 31st March, a message was received from the resident naval officer at Brixham that a boat from H.M.S. Pomerol with men on board was adrift...
Category: Services
Coxswain Chris Haw
Bronze Medal Coxswain Chris Haw of Swanage for the service to the yacht Be Happy on 28 October 1996 - see Tht Liftbott Winter 1996/7 for a full report of the service. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ROGERSTOWN, Co. DUBLIN.—In Feb- ruary 1873, a vessel was wrecked near this place, and the crew were nearly all day in the rigging before they could be rescued, there being no Life-boat at hand; the exposure resulted in the death of one of...
Category: Articles
Books
• Sailing Years, an autobiography by K. Adlard Coles (Granada Publishing, £9.95) is .fascinating reading because alongside the tales of this well-known sailor there emerges the story of the development of sailing and racing offshore. I...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March, 1955. 63 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURIXG January life-boats were launched 41 times and rescued 37 lives.
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY FISHING FLEET Anstruther, Fifeshire.—Oil the after- noon of the 3rd of January, 1955, the wind freshened, and at...
Category: Services
Form, of Liverpool
On the same evening during a heavy gale from the N.W., the Life-boat Princess of Wales on this station put off to the brigantine Form, of Liverpool, in reply to her signals of distress, and landed her crew of 6 men. The vessel was in the...