LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Haisbro' Lightvessel
Cromer, Norfolk. At 8.23 on the morn- ing of the 16th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a vessel had collided with the Haisbro' lightvessel, which was sinking. At 8.32, when the No. 1 life- boat...
Members of the Spalding Sub-Aqua Club Took Part In An Underwater Sponsored 'Fin' Along the 2 Lh Mile Coronation Channel—A Flood Relief Channel In Spalding the 'Fin' Was Swum In Darkness St
Members of the Spalding Sub-Aqua Club took part in an underwater sponsored 'fin' along the 2 lh mile Coronation Channel—a flood relief channel in Spalding. The 'fin' was swum in darkness, starting at 7pm, and over £100... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Speed Boat (2)
Mudeford, Hampshire. At 1.20 p.m.
on i8th April, 1965, a member of the crew of the inshore rescue boat saw a speedboat with her crew of two in the water after she had been swamped at die harbour entrance. At 1.25 the IRB...
A Motor Boat (2)
FIVE PEOPLE At 6.45 p.m. on 22nd May, 1966, the honorary secretary was informed that a small motor boat with five people on board was adrift in the sound of Barra with engine trouble. The life-boat R.A.
ColbyCubbinNo. 3 was...
A Motor Boat
Clogher Head, Co. Louth.—On the 15th of August, 1949, an officer of the Irish Army and a priest, who were on holiday, went out from Drogheda in a motor boat. About four in the after- noon the engine broke down, the boat anchored, and the...
A Phantom Jet
Phantom jet crew ON FRIDAY, December 5,1975, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Skegness lifeboat station at 1400 that an aircraft had crashed into the sea and that two parachutists had been seen.
The 37'...
Belgian Life-Boats Built In England
THREE motor life-boats have been built at Cowes, under the supervision of the Institution, for the Belgian Life-boat Service, which is maintained by the Ministry of Communications. All thre.e are Watson cabin boats, 46 feet 9 inches long, ...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE unusually fine weather of the last three months has been most favourable to Life-boat Saturday demonstrations throughout the country, and hardly a Saturday has passed without one or more of such functions being held. The popu- larity of...
Category: Articles
Restoration of the Apparently Drowned
IN the year 1864, after making exhaustive inquiries extending over some years, the Committee of Management • of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION issued to all its Lifeboat stations the regulations for the restoration of the...
Category: Articles
Mind the gap
As waves hurled themselves at the narrow harbour entrance, two lifeboat crews needed to combine their skills to get a yacht to safety
A gale force 8 was lashing Newlyn Harbour as Coxswain Patch...
Category: Articles