LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
July (1)
RYE, SUSSEX. Shortly after two in the afternoon of the 5th of March, 1944, two men in the fishing boat F.E.152 were trawling in Rye Bay. They heard a burst of machine-gun fire from a Thunderbolt aeroplane, and saw the pilot bale out. The sea...
Category: Services
Jojephil
At 8.20 p.m. on 2oth July, 1967, a message was received that distress signals had been observed at a position four miles north of Moelfre. The IRB was launched to investigate a report of a cabin cruiser in difficulties. On reaching the...
Above: Some of the 80 Guests Arriving
Above: Some of the 80 guests arriving for the gala performance of 'The Merry Widow' at Holland Park in Kensington on 27 June 2001.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
LOWESTOPT, SUFFOLK.—Shortly before 8 P.M. on the 20th July a trawler, when trying to make Pakefield Gatway, struck on the N.E. part of the Newcome sands.
The coxswain of the Life-boat observed the accident, assembled the...
Category: Services
Around the Coast
FROM AN ARTICLE on Horton and Port Eynon ILB station by Mr C. R. Chatterton published in the Newsletter of Reardon Smith Line. Mr Chatterton is chairman of both the shipping line and the ILB station branch: 'Operating an inshore lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Blizzard Did Not Deter
ADDITIONAL monetary awards have been paid to the crew of the Courtmacsherry' Co. Cork, life-boat for the service they undertook to the French trawler Obelix on 18th February, 1969, in the worst local weather for...
Category: Services
I FLOATED TO LIVE
Each issue we share with you stories of courageous rescues by our lifesavers, but this last year we’ve been hearing from you too. Thanks to our Respect the Water campaign, there has been a different kind of rescue happening around our coasts...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
Groves & Guttridge Ltd
SINCE 1931 LIFE-BOATS HAVE BEEN BUILT FOR THE RNLI BY GROVES AND GUTTRIDGE EAST COWES ISLE OF WIGHT Tel: Cowes 2561 27.
Category: Advertisement
Peggy, June and Ann, Barbara and Joan, and Joan and Mary
JANUARY 24TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
Four of the Filey motor fishing boats, Peggy, June and Ann, Barbara and Joan, and Joan and Mary, were out fishing. A strong wind got up from the S.E., with a heavy swell, and at 12.25 in...