LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Schooner
Ferryside, Carmarthenshire. — 1st April, 1939. A schooner had been reported in a dangerous position near the Pembery Sands, but no trace of any vessel in need of help could be found—Rewards, £12 10s. 6d..
A Small Trawler
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—1st October, 1939. A small trawler had been reported in a sinking condition fifty miles away, but another vessel took her in tow. The life-boat returned after being out for over nine hours.—Rewards, £16 2s. 9d....
An Aeroplane (26)
MARCH 1ST. - BUCKIE, AND WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE. A German aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but the crew got ashore by rubber dinghy in the darkness, unseen by the life-boats. - Rewards : Buckie, £11 14s. ; Whitehills, £15...
Correction
In the last edition of the Lifeboat in a news item titled Honours for RNLI people, we incorrectly stated that Bob Bulgin BEM had been involved with Port Isaac Lifeboat Station for 6 years.
It should have read 16 years – of...
Category: Articles
June and Capella
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 10.45 on the morning of the 1st of September, 1956, the Wyke Regis coastguard telephoned that a small fishing boat had engine trouble a quarter of a mile west of Portland Bill. At 10.55 the life-boat William and Clara...
An Anthology on Courage
MR. EDMUND WARDE, of The Red House, Lyminge, Folkestone, Kent, has compiled a pocket anthology of nearly 150 sayings about courage, from Job's "I will put off my sad countenance and be of good cheer," to Rudyard Kipling's...
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(Above Right) Attention to Detail
(above right) Attention to detail - North Foreland had a blue bottom white at Margate, so she has one now.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
False Alarms
Two more false alarms have to be added to those which were mentioned in an article in The Lifeboat in November 1926. On the evening of 1st August, an aeroplane passed over Selsey, and a parachute was seen to drop from it and fall into the...
Category: Articles
Margaret, of Skibbereen
SEPTEMBER 1ST. - COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. At 10.20 at night a fisherman returned from trawling and reported that a lobster boat appeared to be in distress near How Strand, to the east of Courtmacsherry Bay. A whole north-west gale was...
The Sunbeam
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 9 o'clock in the evening of the 1st of August, 1948, the coastguard reported a motor vessel broken down off Saltdean, and the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched at 9.5 in calm...