LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Catamaran
One cat twice HM COASTGUARD informed Coxswain Thomas Cocking of St Ives lifeboat station at noon on Saturday August 16, 1980, that a small catamaran being sailed singlehanded had capsized two miles east of the station. Coxswain Cocking made...
Dasher, of Amlwch
On the 21st April, the schooner Dasher, of Amlwch, went on shore near St. Patrick's Causeway, during a fresh gale of wind. The Ellen life-boat put oft' twice, and on the second occasion was able to assist the vessel safely into...
S.S. Brightside, of Middlesbrough
SEPTEMBER 27TH. - CAISTER, NORFOLK.
At 9.15 in the morning the coastguard reported a small steamer aground on the east side of the Scroby Sands. A moderate west-north-west wind was blowing, with a ground swell. The...
Ginette, of Audierne
St. Ives, Cornwall - At 10.45 a-mon 18th March, 1967, a French fishing vessel was reported to be in difficulties half a mile north west of St. Ives Head.
The life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched at 11...
Broken on the Goodwins
The French Steamer Agen (See page 317). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Focus On... Torbay
'ONE of the outstanding things about our station', explained Mr. Frederick W. H. Park, M.B.E., honorary secretary of the Torbay, South Devon, life-boat station, 'is that we are never short of men to man the life-boats. As for...
Category: Articles
The First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Edward Ashmore Spent An Hour With the Rnli When Visiting the Royal Marines at Hamworthy Last Autumn (Above Right—Royal Marine Phot
The First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Edward Ashmore, spent an hour with the RNLI when visiting the Royal Marines at Hamworthy last autumn. (Above right—Royal Marine photograph) He was transferred by Atlantic 21 1LB to (above) Arun class lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Gaff-rigged Cutter Twilight
MAN TAKEN OFF SINKING CUTTER Dungeness, Kent. At 6.40 on the evening of the 14th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the gaff-rigged cutter Twilight was ashore one to two miles west of Dengemarsh look-out, but...
A 100-Foot Length of Avon Inflatable Tendering Bent and Anchored Across the Mouth of Little Venice, London, to Contain the Oil Slick.
A 100-foot length of Avon inflatable tendering bent and anchored across the mouth of Little Venice, London, to contain the oil slick.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Below) Slipway: New Galvanised Steel Panels Were Bolted to the Transoms to the Tops of Which Up to a Metre of Concrete Had Been Added
(Below) Slipway: new galvanised steel panels were bolted to the transoms, to the tops of which up to a metre of concrete had been added.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs