LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cover Picture
December 20, 1980: Yarmouth hie of Wight lifeboat, the 52ft Arun Joy and John Wade, on the traditional run to the Needles Lighthouse with Christmas fare. The photograph was taken bv Mr M. R. Cooke.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Yacht (1)
OLD LIFE-BOAT WEATHERED STORM Lytham St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 2.45 p.m. on nth July, 1965, a two masted yacht was seen off the Wall End buoy, apparently receiving a heavy battering from the seas. There was a west-by-south wind of near...
Northerly Storm—Spring Tides: a Log of the Night of January 11 and 12 1978 By Michael Pennell
On the night of January 11 and 12, 1978, storm force winds blowing right down the North Sea coinciding with some of the highest tides of the winter resulted in severe flooding and damage down the East Coast of England and in the Thames...
Category: Articles
The Inaugural Ceremony of the Buckie Motor Life-Boat
THIS Motor Life-boat went from Cowes to her Station by sea in August, 1922, but it was found necessary to postpone the actual ceremony of inaugurating the boat until the spring of this year. The Boat is of the Watson type, 45 feet by 11 feet...
Category: Inaugurations
SAILING TODAY
GET 3 ISSUES FOR JUST £1 We're delighted to offer members of the RNLI the opportunity to try the next 3 issues of Sailing Today for just £1. That's just 33p an issue compared to the shop price of...
Category: Advertisement
Loss of the "Arctic." Heroic Conduct of An Englishman
HEROIC CONDUCT OF AN ENGLISHMAN.
IT is with the mingled feeling of melancholy pleasure that is peculiar to the contemplation of great acts which have caused the death of the actors of them, that we add to our series of...
Category: Articles
The Great Exhibition of 1851: The Festival of Britain 1951
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to April 30th, 1952 77,697 The Great Exhibition of 1851: The Festival of Britain 1951 IN 1851 a...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy and a Sailing Dinghy
TWO CALLS TO DINGHIES IN ONE EVENING Blackpool, Lancashire. At 5.45 on the evening of the 1st June, 1963, the Fleetwood coastguard telephoned to say three youths in a rubber dinghy were drifting out to sea a mile off Rossall Point. At 6.15...
Cerealia
Crew's 'fine teamwork' during 16-hour service The crew of Wells Mersey class lifeboat Doris M. Mann of Ampthill have been commended following a 16-hour service which 'was dominated by a fine display of teamwork' in winds...
People and Places
New Year Honours Among the awards in the New Year Honours list were: BEM David W. Evans, coxswain of New Quay (Dyfed) lifeboat. Coxswain Evans joined the lifeboat crew in 1958, was bowman from 1962 to 1964, second coxswain until 1965 when he...
Category: Articles