LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Outboard Gemini Craft
St. Ives, Cornwall - At 8.17 p.m. on I3th May, 1967, it was reported that an outboard Gemini craft had left Porthmeor Cove at 2.30 and had not been sighted since. The life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched at 8.50 in a...
Vee Dee Bee
Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 10.57 p.m. on iSth June, 1967, flares were reported in the vicinity of Horse Sand Fort. The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched at 11.23 m a light south south westerly breeze and a smooth sea. The tide was ebbing....
While St.Mary's New Arun Was at Poole Before Sailing
While St Mary's new Arun was at Poole before sailing for the Scilly Islands she was visited by her donor, Mrs Esme Edgar, who in a small private ceremony named the lifeboat Robert Edgar. Coxswain Matthew Lethbridge and some of his crew... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pillaging Will Be Delayed Slightly
It is not often that a lifeboat tows a Viking longship, but it does happen! Moelfre's Tyne class lifeboat Robert and Violet is pictured doing just this on 15 July 1990 after receiving a call from the replica Longship Dyflin, based in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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At 2005 information was received that Scarborough lifeboat was launching to investigate red flares sighted by Flamborough Coastguard and at 2240 Filey lifeboat was requested by Tees Coastguard to launch to join Whitby and Scarborough...
Plymouth Exhibition
The international lifeboat exhibition, which as reported in the July issue of THE LIFEBOAT is to be held in West Hoe Park, Plymouth, will run from July 20 to August 31,1974, and not from July 14 to September 10 as...
Category: Correspondence
A Dinghy
GirS caught in Dinghy rigging TWO PEOPLE clinging to a capsized dinghy one mile offshore, south of Towyn, were reported to Aberdovey honorary secretary by the Coastguard at 1220 on Friday, April 4.
The ILB launched at 1225....
An Aeroplane (18)
SEPT. 9TH. - MARGATE, KENT, AND SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off Leysdown. The Margate life-boat was launched just after eleven at night in a thick fog and reached Leysdown two hours and twenty...
Castlebrae and Kitty Mackay
JANUARY 18TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
An easterly gale was blowing with a heavy sea, and at 2.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that some small fishing boats were still at sea. The motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of...
An Aeroplane (5)
FEBRUARY 9TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 3.50 P . M . the coastguard reported a British aeroplane in difficulties, and a few minutes later the news came that the aeroplane was down in the sea. Her position was given at...