LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Examination Vessel
NOVEMBER 12TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. The motor life-boat Queen Victoria, on temporary duty at Shoreham, was lying alongside Benes Wharf, Kingston, in an exposed position. The weather was severe, and as the life-boat might have received...
A Small Boat
Dover, Kent.—28th September, 1939.
A small boat had been reported as capsized six miles from Dover in a rough sea, but the life-boat could find nothing.—Partly permanent paid crew: Rewards, £1 17*. 6d..
(Top Left) Waveney:
(top left) Waveney: Length overall 44ft; beam 12ft 6in; draught 4ft; displacement 18 tons; maximum speed, over 15 knots; range at full speed, 167 nautical miles. The Waveney, introduced in 1967 from the USA, lies afloat and has a crew of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Running:
• The running: crossing the line after 26 miles and 385 yards is Cliff Deane (No 8945), the author's husband, who was one of the stalwart band of RNLI supporters who ran the London Marathon to raise money for the lifeboats . .... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Long Tow
The new Gorleston 44-foot steel life-boat Khami bringing in the Theodora after a round trip of nearly 100 miles on 4th September, 1967, when the 38-ton auxiliary yacht carrying 14 people got into difficulties in the North Sea. The photograph... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Kiley's D Class Inshore and All-Weather Lifeboats Were Called to the Rescue of Victoria and Michael
Kiley's I) class inshore and allweather lifeboats were called to t he rescue of I 'iclima and Michael.
a 25ft llshiiii; essel aground on rocks at Chimney Hole some two miles of the station on 9... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Flying Boat
OCT. 13TH. - ST. MARY’S, SCILLY ISLES. The coastguard had reported a message from the R.A.F. that a flying boat had come down approximately fifty miles to the west of Scilly Isles, but shortly after the life-boat was launched she was...
A Trawler (4)
MAY 6TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK.
The military look-out had reported a trawler sounding her fog siren, but the life-boat was recalled when a message came from the Ballycotton Lighthouse that, after signalling “ mines...
Aircraft
AP R I L 1 5 T H . - RAMSGATE, KENT.
Aircraft had been reported down in the sea about thirty miles east of Ramsgate, but the life-boat was recalled by other aircraft which had already made a search. - Rewards, £7 16s....
An Aeroplane (106)
AUGUST 26TH. CROMER, NORFOLK.
An aeroplane had come down in the sea about 18 miles from Cromer, but the crew were picked up by other vessels. - Rewards, £6 1s. 6d..