LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Busiest July since 2006
As the Lifeboat went to print, the rescue reports coming in from our lifeboat stations and lifeguard units showed 2013 is set to be one of the busiest Summers on record. People flocked to the coast during the sunny days of July, which was...
Category: Articles
Rescue In Violent Seas
COXSWAIN Dermot Walsh of the Valentia, Co. Kerry, life-boat has been awarded a silver medal and six of the crew members accorded the Institution's thanks on vellum, for courageous rescue operations oif the west coast of Ireland.
Category: Services
Leader, of Harwich
On the 4th February the smack Leader, of Harwich, was wrecked off Thorpeness in a very heavy sea. The Ips- wich life-boat was soon launched and taken alongside the vessel. All the crew had abandoned her except the master, and had been picked...
Plastic Collecting Boxes Are to Be Gradually Introduced Experimentally
Plastic collecting boxes are to be gradually introduced experimentally by the R.N.L.I. Here the box, orange in colour, is being shown off. Another box of the same shape, yellow in colour, has been ordered for experimental use as the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of James Thomas Upperton, the coxswain of the Shoreham Harbour life-boat. Cox- swain Upperton first joined the crew in 1910. He became second coxswain in 1940 and in 1947 he was appointed coxswain. He is a holder...
Category: Articles
Bobby Lee Bem Coxswain of the Douglas Lifeboat from 1950 to 1970 on One of His First Services As Coxswain In April 1950 Bobby Lee Rescued Ten Men from Mary H
Bobby Lee, BEM, coxswain of the Douglas lifeboat from 1950 to 1970. On one of his first services as coxswain, in April 1950, Bobby Lee rescued ten men from Mary Heely.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Below) There's Many a Slip on the Way to the Horse's Head! Just One of the Games Some Old Some New Thought Up By Happisburgh Branch to Test the Skills of Those
(Below) There's many a slip on the way to the horse's head! Just one of the games, some old, some new, thought up by Happisburgh branch to test the skills of those attending its fete in May. At the end of the day £218.16 had... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Book Corner
• Visitors to Clovelly usually see this famous Devon coastal village in a setting of a calm sea.
Conditions are not always as idyllic as this, however. Evidence of this is given in the excellent Short History of the...
Category: Articles
A Fishing Boat (1)
Fishing boat capsized A TELEPHONE CALL was received by the honorary secretary of Penarth lifeboat station at 1311 on Friday September 18, 1981, from The Mumbles Coastguard requesting the launch of the lifeboat: a message had come on VHP...
Gallantry In Galway Bay. Award of Seven Bronze Medals
ON the night of August 16th, 1938, the steam trawler Nogi, of London, went ashore about 300 yards N.W. of the lighthouse on Straw Island, which lies off Inishmore, one of the Aran Islands in Galway Bay, on the west coast of Ireland. A strong...
Category: Services