LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy
Dinghy capsize A LIFEBOATMAN, John Strachan, who is skipper of a ferry running from Largs Pier to Cumbrae, and Matthew Ramsay and Donald McMillan, skippers of fishing vessels Sea Nymph and Mhari Bhan, who were mooring their boats at Largs...
A Motor Boat and Faith
Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 11.15 a.m. on 29th August, 1965, St Mary's lighthouse keeper told the coxswain that a small boat was in difficulties off the lighthouse. The life-boat Sir James Knott was launched at 11.20 in a westnorth-...
The New Plymouth Boat (Below) Like Those of Whitby and Jersey Is Is a 44' Waveney Photograph By Courtesy of Western Morning News
The new Plymouth boat (below), like those of Whitby and Jersey, is is a 44' Waveney. - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of Western Morning News.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In May, 1970, When Mr. J. P. Morris, of Coventry, Who Is a Keen Member of the Life-Boat Enthusiasts' Society,
In May, 1970, when Mr. J. P. Morris, of Coventry, who is a keen member of the Life-boat Enthusiasts' Society, was visiting Minehead, Somerset, he found IRB No. 177 being launched on exercise. This IRB is fitted with inner tubes. Older... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fundraisers
It Moosed be a mistake! No-one in the RNLI's membership department had an inkling that Mr A. Moose of the Station Hotel, Hurworth Place near Darlington was anything other than a normal, valued member - and the landlord of the Station...
Category: Articles
The Rig Safety Vessel Spearfish
RSV aground 'WE CANNOT hold out much longer—• bumping heavily.' It was 0520 on January 12, just five minutes after extension trawler, now rig safety vessel, Spearfish reported to the Coastguard at Lerwick,Shetland Islands, that she...
A Survivor Leaps for His Life
A survivor leaps for his life from a wrecked barge into Margate's inshore lifeboat. Photographer Susan Addtngton's brother was a member of the lifeboat crew. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain John King: Awarded a Silver Medal for Gallantry After Taking Off Five Crew from White Knight In Hurricane Force Winds
Coxswain John King: awarded a silver medal for gallantry after taking off five crew from White Knight in hurricane force winds.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Past and Present
75 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT May 1916 Life-boat crews on the Yorkshire Coast From time immemorial it has been the custom of the Life-boat Service not to maintain fixed crews for Lifeboats, but to draw volunteers as required...
Category: Articles
February
FEBRUARY Launches 38 Lives rescued 58 FEBRUARY 3RD. - SELSEY, SUSSEX.
The life-boat coxswain and others were at the life-boat station when, at 3.40 in the afternoon, they saw a Typhoon aeroplane, flying low, crash in the...
Category: Services