LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Girvan, Ayrshire. About six o'clock on the evening of the 15th August, 1961, the honorary secretary received a message from the man in charge of the lighthouse supply boat at Ailsa Craig that a quarryman was suffering from a badly...
Pollux
At 4.20 p.m. on 2nd July, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Dutch trawler Pollux had a mine on board. She was making for the Tyne and a R.N. bomb and mine disposal party were on their way from Rosyth.
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Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE by Edward Mallinson The third Trent class, Blue Peter VII, pictured off the island of Alderney during crew training before going to her station at Fishguard. She is the first all-weather lifeboat to carry the 'Blue... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pelton
JANUARY 30TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
The No. 1 life-boat H. F. Bailey was at Gorleston, where she had put in after a service. While she was there news was received that a vessel was being attacked by enemy aircraft in Yarmouth...
An American Fortress Aeroplane
JUNE 25TH. - CAISTER, NORFOLK. At twelve noon the coastguard telephoned that an airman was in the sea 500 yards S.E. of Waxham. He was one of the crew of an American Fortress aeroplane. All the crew had baled out but the others had come down...
Olev
NOVEMBER 2ND. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.
At 8.33 in the morning the Hoylake coastguard reported that the naval authorities wanted a life-boat to go out and stand by a vessel high and dry on the Burbo Bank, half a mile...
District Inspectors
Captain G. R. Cousins, D.S.C., R.N., who has returned to the Institution from the Navy, has been appointed to the Southern District. During the war he helped to build the Lyness base in Scapa Flow and then took command of H.M.S....
Category: Articles
A Walrus Aeroplane
JULY 30TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At 6.1 P.M. the flag officer in charge at Great Yarmouth telephoned, through the Cromer coastguard, asking that the life-boat should be sent to help a Walrus aeroplane which had come down in the sea about six...
An Aeroplane (66)
AUGUST 7TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At 5.20 in the morning the lifeboat watchman saw a large bombing aeroplane come down on fire near the gate vessel.The sea was ablaze with burning petrol. The coxswain rang up the Royal...
The S.S. Goteborg
FEBRUARY 10TH . - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE. At 11.24 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel ashore at Fifeness. The night was calm, with a light northerly wind, but the wind freshened later, with squalls of snow. The motor life-boat Nellie and...