LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Above a Lovely Day
Above. A lovely day for a swim. Excellent weather over the two days made life a little more pleasant for the crews demonstrating righting techniques. Here the air bag on an Atlantic 21 brings her swiftly upright just off the depot quay. D... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Inflatable Dinghy (2)
Two ILBs search A SMALL INFLATABLE DINGHY in which it was thought there were two boys and which appeared to be in difficulty 600 yards off Southerness Light was reported to Silloth ILB station by Ramsey Coastguard at 1819 on Wednesday May 2;...
Sincere
Search for missing vessel locates wreck A total of 21 boats, including the Scarborough, Filey and Whitby lifeboats, took part in the search for the fishing vessel Sincere with two persons on board, when it failed to return to harbour on 28...
£1,617 from the Austin Motor Company.
Since March 1942 the Austin Motor Company has given the Life-boat Service £1617. 6s. It gives one shilling for each horse power of every engine which it builds for ships' life-boats, and so far these engines have brought the...
Category: Articles
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One man's courage A young man swept into the sea and crushed against rocks would surely have died were it not for the brave actions of lifeboatman Fergal Walsh. With no regard for the risk to himself he plunged into the sea to save the...
A Motor Boat
Selsey, Sussex.—At 3.5 on the after- noon of the 14th of May, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat, believed to be one in which the life-boat honorary secretary's son and two of his friends had put out earlier in the day....
Garry Windehunk—You Can Only See His Legs—Is Not Only Supporting a World Record Number of 76 Lyres Tit a Garage In Ramsey His Weightlifting Feat Is Also Supporting the Mountbatten of Burma Li
Garry Windehunk—you can only see his legs—is not only supporting a world record number of 76 lyres tit a garage in Ramsey, his weightlifting feat is also supporting the Mountbatten of Burma lifeboat appeal to the tune of £500 in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
ORMES' HEAD, LLAKDUDNO.—On the 27th February, information was received here that a vessel was in distress in the bay. The wind was blowing hard from the N.E. at the time, and the sea was very rough.
The Sisters'...
Category: Services
Your Letters
The casualty's view of a rescue ... and thanks to the crew Having read the discussion 'Men behind the medals' in the Autumn issue of The Lifeboat, I wanted to comment on some of the points as seen through the eyes of a...
Category: Correspondence
The Lancashire School's Symphony Orchestra Were Among Passengers Who Had to Be Rescued from the Ferry Winston Churchill When She Ran Aground In Gothenberg Sweden Last Summer Th
The Lancashire School's Symphony Orchestra were among passengers who had to be rescued from the ferry Winston Churchill when she ran aground in Gothenberg, Sweden, last summer. The conductor, Malcolm Doley, is pictured here with the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs