LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Skiff
Wicklow. At 10.30 on the morning of the 19th of November, 1959, the second coxswain came to the conclusion that a 16-ft. fishing skiff with an out- board motor, which had put out at six o'clock and had not returned, might be in danger....
A Lifeboat Village at Earls Court
'WELCOME TO THE BOAT SHOW! we are particularly pleased that in this our 21st anniversary year we are featuring the Royal National Life-boat Institution which is, in turn, celebrating its own 150th year.' Thus, on New Year's Day,...
Category: Articles
Helmsman Alan Venner (Right) and Crew Member Paul Brierley Row In a Disabled Yacht.
Helmsman Alan Venner (right) and crew member Paul Brierley row in a disabled yacht.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Accident With a Maroon
A MOST unfortunate accident, resulting in the death of the Coxswain, occurred at Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, on 6th August, on which day Life-boat Day and a Road Practice of the Life-boat were to be held. Coxswain Kneen, in firing the maroon...
Category: Articles
A Small Boat
Outboard failed A SMALL BOAT which had fired a hand flare off Crackington Haven was reported to the honorary secretary of Bude lifeboat station by Hartland Coastguard at 1500 on Saturday May 29. Maroons were fired and at 1505 the D class...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st Oct. To the 31st Dec. 1878
ISLE OF WHITHORN.—On the 2nd Octo-ber, the smack Swallow was observed off: Borough Head dismasted, and in danger of being driven on the rocks. The Whithorn Life-boat Charlie Peek put off to her assistance, but before she could get near the...
Category: Services
A Small Fishing Boat
Early on the morning of the 1st July the coast- guard telephoned that a small fishing boat, which had put out on the previous evening, had not returned to harbour.
She carried a crew of four. The sea was smooth, but there...
Pern
Anstruther, Fife - At 3.26 a.m. on 28th October, 1966, red flares were reported eight miles south east of Fifeness. At 3.30 the life-boat The Doctors was launched. It was three hoursafter high water. At 9 o'clock the life-boat reached...
A Naval Officer's Gratitude
AT six o'clock in the morning on the 5th of December, 1947, the Bembridge motor life-boat, Jesse Lumb, went out to the help of a vessel firing signals of distress about four miles south-east of St. Catherine's Point. A gale was...
Category: Services