LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fairey Marine
For Coastal, Off-Shore or Ocean Rescue FAIREY MARINE Purpose- built all-weather craft INTERCEPTOR Instant response and immediate 7.6m Fast Reaction first aid prior to arrival of more Rescue Craft conventional Life...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WHITBY AND UPGANG.—The NATIONAL LITE-BOAT INSTITUTION has forwarded two new Life-boats to these stations, in the place of other boats. Both boats are 32 feet long and 7£ feet wide, and row 10 oars "double-banked. The Whitby Life-...
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Fluminense
CABIN CRUISER TOWED OFF SANDS Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 11.56 on the night of the 12th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a small craft was reported to be aground on the Sunk Sands near No. 6 Barrow West buoy and that she...
Ella Hewett
TWENTY-THREE HOUR SERVICE TO TRAWLER Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 12.32 on the morning of the 3rd November, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a trawler had grounded on a wreck in Church Bay, Rathlin Island, but that she...
Fishing Boats (1)
Arranmore, Co. Donegal. •— On the 15th January the fishing fleet from Arranmore, Burtonport, and the surrounding islands, put off to fish in Boylagh Bay. The boats did not return when expected, and, as a dense fog set in, the motor life-boat...
Morag
Knockdown JUST AS Lytham-St Anne's lifeboat was being moored after returning from exercise at sea on Saturday afternoon, June 6, 1981, Liverpool Coastguard informed the station honorary secretary that an unconfirmed report had been...
The Liverpool Class Lifeboat Tillie Morrison Sheffield
The Liverpool class lifeboat Ti/lie Morrison Sheffield II - seen here in RNLI service at Bridlington - is now a tripper boat in New Zealand. Walter Baguley's letter (left) reminds us that she served as a lifeboat in Sumner, New Zealand,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
All adrift
22 October 2011: Eastbourne all-weather lifeboat crew responded to the call for help from a cruiser with engine failure. She was drifting quickly and her crew suffering severe seasickness in the turbulent seas. The lifeboat towed her to...
Category: Articles
Windsurfer overcome
18 October: The Mumbles Just as preparations for the Mumbles Oyster Festival were taking place, a visitor spotted a windsurfer in difficulty half a mile out to sea. The volunteers launched their inshore lifeboat...
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A Rowing Boat
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 2.25 in the afternoon of the 25th of April, 1949, information was ree«ived that the lightkeeper of the St. Helen's Fort was drifting seawards in a rowing boat, and at 2.45 the life-boat Jesse...