LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

PEEL, Isle of Man, Saturday February 1, 1986: the station's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat out on service in a moderate northerly breeze.

The fishing vessel Ranger had suffered gear-box failure just 100 yards off... - View image in PDF

Dover, Kent. At 6.11 on the morn- ing of the 30th of January, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a coaster was aground in St. Margaret's Bay. The honorary secretary asked for further information, and at seven o'...

Stronsay, and Stromness, Orkneys.— At 10.24 on the night of the 26th of May, 1954, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned the Stronsay life-boat sta- tion that a man had left St. Catherine's Bay in a motor boat for Kirkwall at five...

The battery that's fitted to the Atlantic The Atlantic 21 was designed for the RNLI to withstand the arduous conditions involved in high speed search and rescue operations.

This special boat needs a very special battery...

On the 12th -February shortly before 5 P.M.

signals of distress were observed on the schooner Lizzie, of Salcombe, lying at anchor in Torbay. The crew of the Life-boat Betsey Newbon were summoned, and the boat launched. On...

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Modek-Completely detailed scale replicavwith crews, mounted on...

MANY letters containing tributes to the work of the life-boat crews are received at the headquarters and bran- ches of the Institution. They are, in fact, too numerous to be quoted regularly, but four letters of very different types received...

Salcombe's 47ft Watson The Baltic Exchange, her emergency bag inflated, bound for Brixham after being capsi:ed and righting in a violent storm on Ma 10. The photograph was taken by the crew of Torbay lifeboat which was escorting her to... - View image in PDF