LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Volvo
LIFE.
When you open the door of a Volvo 460 Turbo, you'll notice the extra weight of the built-in crash-bar. It's there in all Volvo doors.
Sink back in your seat, secure in the knowledge that you...
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Two Sailboards, a Dinghy, two Yachts, a Catamaran and a Trimaran
An afternoon's work A SOUTH-EASTERLY NEAR GALE, force 7.
deteriorating to gale force 8 with heavy rain squalls was blowing at Hayling Island during the afternoon of Saturday September 19, 1981. The tide was ebbing so...
John Mikle
The steam trawler John Meikle, of North Shields, when homeward bound from fishing on the 13th October, stranded half a mile to the north of Newbiggin Point, in a very heavy fog, a moderate S.E. gale and rough sea. Information of the casualty...
Naming Ceremony at Rhyl
THE new life-boat at Rhyl is a gift from Liverpool. She has been built out of a legacy from the late Mr. A. R.
Marshall, who was for many years the honorary secretary of the Port of Liverpool branch of the...
Category: Inaugurations
Two Fishing Boats (1)
NOVEMBER 7TH. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. Two fishing boats had been delayed by a dense fog, but returned while the life-boat was searching for them. - Rewards, £8 3s..
Galilean
CASUALTY FOUND 20FT FROM ROCKY LKK SHORK Crew rescued from fishing vessel in Force 11 winds and total darkness Coxswain/Mechanic Thomas Ralston of Mallaig has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for rescuing two men and their...
Welcome
The weather was especially unforgiving back in the Winter, whether it caused inland flooding or offshore accidents. As you’ll read in our rescue pages, it led to challenging times for our Flood Rescue Team and lifeboat...
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Bingo Lifeline, Newly Named and Bedecked In Bunting, Takes a Short Trip Around East Cowes Marina.
Bingo Lifeline, newly named and bedecked in bunting, takes a short trip around East Cowes Marina. - View image in PDF
Photo Jeff Morris.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The French Fishing Boat Jeune Louis
Hastings, Sussex.—At 4.2 on the afternoon of the 25th of November, 1952, a coastguardsman at Pett tele- phoned that a fishing boat was in diffi- culties near the shore off Rye. Later the Fairlight coastguard stated that she had apparently...
Tam o’ Shanter
APRIL 6TH - 7TH. - CLACTON, ESSEX. At 12.55 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a barge was showing signals of distress about five miles off Clacton, and the Clacton motor life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched at 1.15. A...