LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The George Pickard
At about 5.20 P.M. on the 23rd October news was received that a small boat was burning flares outside the north arm of the Admiralty breakwater. She was the old life-boat George Pickard, which had been sold out of the service, and was now...
Other IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 46, 59, and 65, the following launches on service were made during the months of September to November, 1966, inclusive: Abersoch,...
Category: Services
The Dredger Coquet Mouth
Montrose, Angus - On 4th May, 1970, the life-boat The Good Hope was launched on service and rescued the crew of four of the dredger Coquet Mouth. A full account of this service will appear in the next number of THE LIFE-BOAT..
Lymington September 5 1986:
Lymington, September 5, 1986: Between her delivery to the station in June and her dedication (left) in September, Lymington's new Atlantic 21 lifeboat Frank and Mary Atkinson had been out on service no fewer than 14 times. The boat had... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
End of a Voyage to New Zealand
AT 4.58 on the afternoon of the 27th of July, 1954, the Hartland coastguard rang up the Clovelly life-boat station with the news that the motor ketch Progress, of Bideford, was in distress under the lee of Lundy Island. The trawler Hosanna...
Category: Services
Ronald Zeghibe on the Bridge of Hms York With Lain Leitch
Ronald Zeghibe on the bridge of HMS York with lain Leitch. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Lot of Bottle
Each year since 1946, a local pub in New Quay, Dyfed, has made a collection for the RNLI with a huge bottle on the bar.
Together with his wife, David Rees, one of the few remaining crew of the William Cantrell Ashley, the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Navette and other Yachts
Margate, Kent. At 12.36 on the after- noon of the llth June, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized off Birching- ton and that a motor boat had gone to her help. The Margate Yacht Club had been...
Cygnet, of Workington
On the after- noon of the 4th January, a small schooner, called the Cygnet, of Workington, with a j cargo of slates, was making this harbour j when she struck on the North Bank, and j afterwards drifted behind the North Pier. | It was...
The Lebanese S.S. Areti
Humber, Yorkshire. At 3.30 p.m.
on 2ist September, 1965, the honorary medical adviser informed the coxswain superintendent that the Lebanese S.S.
Areti off Spurn Point had a sick seaman on board who...