LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Leading a Double Life
Whatever the weather, day or night, when the distress call comes, RNLI crew members drop everything and race for their lifeboats. Usually, the only full time member of a crew is the mechanic at all-weather stations and most lifeboat men and...
Category: Articles
A Motor Barge
Bembridge, Isle of Wight 10th February. A motor barge had been flying a signal, but did not want any help.—Rewards, £18 Us. Qd..
A Foreign Fishing Boat
SEPTEMBER 6TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
A flare had been reported and a foreign fishing boat was found, but she did not need help. - Rewards, £10..
A Steamer
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—12th November.
A steamer had gone ashore, but her crew were rescued from the shore by the coastguard life-saving apparatus.— Rewards, £26 2s. 6d..
And They're Off!
The BT Global Challenge got off to a somewhat choppy start in Southampton on 29 September 1996.
Toshiba Wave Warrior can be seen in the centre of the above photograph accompanied by Calshot's Brede class lifeboat,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A British Anson Aeroplane
JULY 8TH. - PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
A British Anson aeroplane had come down in the sea, but her crew were rescued by a Walrus amphibious aeroplane.
- Rewards, £3 2s. 6d..
A Dinghy (4)
JULY 2ND. - BLACKPOOL, AND LYTHAM ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. A dinghy, thought to belong to a missing Wellington aeroplane, had been reported, but nothing was found. - Rewards : Blackpool, £8 2s. ; Lytham - St. Annes, £7 6s....
Rescue In Thick Fog Off the Orkneys
THE first news that the steam trawler Leicester City, of Grimsby, was in dis- tress to reach a life-boat station came in the form of a message from the Wick coastguard to the Thurso, Caithness-shire, honorary...
Category: Services
Shifting Sands
Shallow water and unpredictable sandbanks present the East Coast lifeboatman with particular difficulties.
Mike Floyd looks at the situation around The Wash We all have our own mental picture of a lifeboat in action - often...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats
Easington, Yorkshire. — On the 28th March, during moderately rough weather a message was received by telephone stating that a steam trawler had stranded, and was in great danger near the old foundation of the Kilasea Beacon. The crew of the...
Category: Services