LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Kongo and Two Motor Fishing Vessels
YACHT AND TWO FISHING VESSELS ESCORTED TO HARBOUR Bridlington, Yorkshire. At seven o'clock on the evening of the 3rd August 1962, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small sailing yacht had been seen passing Spurn Point and...
Lantyan
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY ALL NIGHT IN FOG Selsey, Sussex. At 9.20 on the evening of the 22nd November, 1962, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a message from Niton radio station that the motor vessel Lantyan of Fowey, which had a...
Fifi
YACHT POOPED AND FLOODED IN HEAVY BREAKERS Rhyl, Flintshire. On Saturday the 17th of August, 1963, the yacht Fiji, of New Brighton, was bound for the Menai Straits with a crew of two, but she was overtaken by bad weather and decided to make...
A Dinghy (2)
PROTOTYPE LIFE-BOAT'S FIRST SERVICE Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At a quarter to midnight on Tuesday the 17th September, 1963, the Needles coastguard reported to the coxswain that two boys had been missing on Tennyson Down since 5.45 that...
Past Explained:
Past explained: the old lifeboathouse at Brook on the south coast of the Isle of Wight, where a pulling lifeboat was kept betweeen 1860 and 1937, has for a long time had no indication of what the building was originally used for. Tourists... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
WTC
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Category: Advertisement
Jardines
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Category: Advertisement
RNLI Vintage Collection,
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Carita (1)
APRIL 17TH. - DOUGLAS, AND RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. At 5 P.M.. a message was received at Ramsey from the coastguard that an aeroplane had sighted a vessel showing distress signals about five miles to the southeast of Ramsey, and at 5.40 the...
Strathalford
APRIL 3 0 T H . - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 12.10 A.M. information was received that a vessel was in distress on the North side of Wick Bay. A fresh S.E. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea. The motor life-boat City of...