LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy (3)
At 10.27 a-m- on 24tri April, 1967, it was reported that a dinghy was in difficulties off the pier. The outboard motor was out of action and the dinghy was drifting out to sea. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse slipped her...
The Children of High Bank Nursery School Swinton Manchester
The children of High Bank Nursery School, Swinton, Manchester, and their parents raised £293.50 for the RNLI in memory of their late head teacher, Miss Constance M.
Hardman; while the children pile into their... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Skegness - East Division
(left) The sands of Skegness at low water, stretching away left and right from the boathouse (almost central on the shoreline) which houses the station's carriage launched Mersey and inflatable D class. Directly behind it is the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Morecambe Walk
Blackpool ladies lifeboat guild held a sponsored walk across Morecambe Bay on 14 June to raise funds for the Institution. The walk was led by the Queen's Official Guide, Cedric Robinson and was highly successful with over 200 people... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Contents
News 2 Celebrations and awards, and a clutch of reader offers Feature: The most lives saved 8 The 100th anniversary of a record-breaking rescue Books 11 A Selsey author records voices from the sea Letters and reader information 13 Including...
Category: Contents
Alanfred
JUNE 28TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 7 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a motor yacht two miles to the S.W. was drifting, and was flying distress signals. A fresh S.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor...
Boats
NOV. 23RD. - MARGATE, KENT. At 9.55 A.M. a message was received from the Ramsgate coastguard asking that the lifeboat should bc launched, go to the North Foreland, and stop all shipping as it was a dangerous area. A fresh S.S.W. wind was...
H.M. Drifter Golden News
FEBRUARY 9TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 8.45 A.M. the naval base reported a vessel in difficulties off the harbour entrance.
The weather was foggy, with a light northerly wind, and the sea was calm. At 9...
The S.S. Cushendon
MARCH 30TH. - CLOVELLY, DEVON. At 8.55 P.M. the naval authorities at Appledore asked the life-boat to go to a vessel flying signals of distress two miles east of Clovelly.
A moderate W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a rough...
An Aeroplane (6)
FEBRUARY 17TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE.
At 2.44 in the afternoon life-boatmen on the promenade saw an aeroplane crash west-north-west of the coastguard station, about a mile off shore. The crash was also seen and...