LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Other IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on pages 646 and 647, the following launches on service were made during the months December 1968, January and February, 1969, inclusive: Aberystwyth,...
Category: Services
Ian Picks the Winners
Ian Ventham, RNLI Head of Fundraising and Marketing, (pictured with Judith Saint, Finance and Systems Manager) drew the winners of the Lifeboat Lottery. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sea Plane No. 898
The Life-boat Licensed Victualler was launched at 7 A.M.
on the 26th October at the request of the officer commanding the Admiralty Seaplane No. 898, to make a search for the machine, which had broken adrift the previous...
The S.S. Harley
FEBRUARY 5TH. - CROMARTY. At 6.25 A.M. the Burghead coastguard reported distress signals from a vessel aground one mile west of Findhorn, and the motor life-boat James Macfee was launched at 6.45 A.M. A moderate S.W. wind was blowing, with a...
Friargate and the S.S. Juan Illueca
Eastbourne, Sussex. At 7.5 on the morning of the 6th of February, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was thought to be ashore east of Beachy Head. After further enquiries had been made it was reported that the...
The Small Rowing Boat Winifred
The small rowing boat Winifred, of Ramsgate, with two men aboard, put to sea on the morning of the 13th July, but a thick fog came down and the men did not know where they were. Their cries for help were heard, and the Motor Life-boat...
Hephzi-Bah and The John
Amble, Northumberland. — In the morning of the 5th of July, 1948, the local fishing cobles, Hephzi-Bah, and The John, were at sea. At 9.30, although the breeze from the north- north-west was moderate, a rough sea was running, and at...
The Lions of Trafalgar Stand Guard As Volunteers and Supporters Man the Displays and Collect Cash {Above)
The lions of Trafalgar stand guard as volunteers and supporters man the displays and collect cash {above) while Stanley Potter aka Stormy Stan fteftl looks after the children.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In Fog Off Chesil Beach
ON the evening of the 2nd of Apfil a strong south-westerly wind was blowing at Weymouth. The sea was rough; there was a heavy driving rain; there were dense banks of fog. At a quarter past six the coastguard telephoned to the honorary...
Category: Services
Mermaid, of Grimsby
the 14th November the Life -boat Licensed Victualler was launched to rescue a boy who had bee.n left on board the smack Mermaid, of Grimsby, which vessel had parted from her cables while in charge of the boy and grounded 200 yards from the...