LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Photograph by courtesy of the Evening Aroust Brighton EHJOVS IT! WORK On the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inshore Rescue Boats Evinrude motors have to work hard.

Have to be ready for action all the time, reliable,...

New Quay, Cardiganshire - At 4.49 p.m. on 3rd September, 1966, a message was received that a yacht was in distress and burning flares. At 5.5 the life-boat St. Albans was launched in a fresh south south westerly wind and a rough...

Filey, Yorkshire - At 8.45 a.m. on 25th January, 1967, nine cobles were reported at sea and there was a distinct possibility of conditions worsening when the tide flooded. By 9.45 conditions had deteriorated considerably and the life-boat...

On the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inshore Rescue Boats Evinrude motors have to work hard.

Have to be ready for action all the time, reliable, powerful. And they always are. Every Evinrude is precision engineered,...

Sunderland, Co. Durham - At 8.19 a.m. on I7th March, 1967, the coble Girl Lynn was reported in difficulties in rough seas about two miles off Roker. The lifeboat William Myers and Sarah Jane Myers was launched at 8.30 in a gale force west...

Holyhead, Anglesey - At 7.44 p.m. on 24th March, 1967, the look-out at Cemaes Bay reported a small boat making for Holyhead in a very rough sea. It was two hours before high water. The lifeboat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland, ontemporary duty...

Sunderland, Co. Durham - At 10.13 a.m. on 2oth May, 1967, the fishing coble Elizabeth was reported to be in difficultiesone and a half miles east of Whitburn and was flying distress signals. The Life-boat William Myers and Sarah Jane Myers...

Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 4.0 p.m. on I2th August, 1967, preparations were almost complete for the new life-boat's naming ceremony when severalcalls were received of a boat in distress in Scotsmans bay. At 4.20 p.m. the lifeboat...