LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fair Festina
Mainsail jammed A MAYDAY distress signal was received by Portland Coastguard at 1709 on Tuesday April 1 from the yacht Fair Festina whose mainsail was jammed.
There was a gale, force 8, blowing from the west and the sea was...
Lindfar
Trawler sinking LATE ON THE NIGHT of Thursday June 6, 1985, the 53ft Dutch trawler Lindfar radioed Thames coastguard to say that she was aground, holed and taking water on the northern Gunfleet Sands.
The honorary secretary...
A Motor Boat (1)
Hythe, Kent.—5th August. A motor boat was reported missing from Littlestone, but it got safely ashore.—Rewards, £20 15«. 6d..
Oak from Devon
The first process. Dividing a crook for stems. It weighed 5 tons and the tree was about 200 years old.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fishing Boat (1)
Fishing boat capsized A TELEPHONE CALL was received by the honorary secretary of Penarth lifeboat station at 1311 on Friday September 18, 1981, from The Mumbles Coastguard requesting the launch of the lifeboat: a message had come on VHP...
A Dinghy
Exmoutb, Devonshire.—26th May. A small dinghy was reported as not havingreturned, but after an unsuccessful search it was found that she had been at anchor in the river.—Rewards, £22 8s..
Brede
Introduced In 1982, the Brede, although an Intermediate class lifeboat rather than allweather, can generally operate in any conditions experienced at the stations to which it is allocated.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On Service In the Pentland Firth
THE following description of a service in the Longhope life-boat appeared in the mid-December 1962 number of "Motor Boat and Yachting." This is reproduced by kind permission of the editor, Commander Erroll Bruce, R.N., who is...
Category: Services
New Dover Motor Life-Boat: A Correction
In the description of the new Dover Motor Life-boat, which was published in the last issue of The Lifeboat, it was stated that the boat could travel 156In the description of the new Dover Motor Life-boat, which was published in the last...
Category: Articles
Le Rondel
Fleetwood, Lancashire - At 5 p.m.
on 18th June, 1967, it was learned that a yacht was in difficulties in the surf one mile east at the No. 8 buoy. The life-boat Ann Letitia Russell was launched at 5.36in a fresh north west...