LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Helping Hand
The Mayor of St. Albans, the Revd Cllr Robert Donald, assisted St. Albans and district branch with a successful collection on 13 December 1996. The collection took place outside Safeways supermarket in Fleetville, St. Albans and raised an... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
H.M.S. Sturdy
OCTOBER 30TH. - TOBERMORY, ISLE OF MULL. H.M.S. Sturdy, a patrol vessel, was reported to have gone ashore on the west side of Tiree. The life-boat searched in a very rough sea, with the wind at hurricane force, but she could find nothing,...
Stranded on rocks
10 April: Ilfracombe, Devon A teenage girl stranded on rocks and cut off by a rising sea was rescued by Ilfracombe lifeboat. The 13-year-old became stuck near Lee Bay while walking with friends. Ilfracombe’s...
Category: Articles
Corbon, of Newcastle
About four o'clock on the morning of the 7th April, the steamer Carbon, of New- castle, was observed in an unmanageable state, and drifting about with the tide, in the direction of the Cockle Sand. The weather was hazy and the wind fresh...
Three Fine Services In February. Thurso, Plymouth and Stromness
THE month of February was marked by three fine services, two in the north of Scotland and the other in the south of England. One was performed by the Pulling and Sailing Life-boat at Thurso, the others by new Motor Life-boats of the Barnett...
Category: Services
Twelve Hours at Night on the Goodwins
ON the night of the 24th of November, 1951, a gale from the west-south-west was blowing across the Goodwin Sands. The seas were very heavy, and the night very dark, with both mist and rain squalls. At 6.48 the coast- guard rang up the Walmer...
Category: Services
Focus On— Wells
WHEN one travels from Norwich, roughly north west, one soon begins to sense that the sea is not far away. The trees on exposed ground have a stunted look caused by the prevailing wind: their limbs are bent in a certain...
Category: Articles
A PADDLE TOO FAR
How many people does it take to save a life? As a mother and son found out last summer, it can take a village
It was almost 5am on Tuesday 14 August when the crew at Skerries Lifeboat Station were woken by their pagers. A...
Category: Articles
Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 4.—The 35-Feet 6 Inches Self-righting Type
UNTIL 1921 all the Institution's motor life-boats were of a weight which made it necessary that they should either lie afloat or be launched down a slip-way.
In that year, the first boat was sta- tioned at Eastbourne of...
Category: Articles
People and Places
Three men from Ramsey lifeboat station have laid claim to being the first Manxmen to climb the rigging of an 1863-built full-rigged sailing ship since the Ramsey-built vessel last left the island some 100 years ago... And what were they...
Category: Articles