LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tange
Three saved after 11 hour service to yachtcromer lifeboat 2nd Coxswain Billy Davies received the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum for saving the lives of three crew and their yacht after an eleven hour 1/etU *.
Dido and the Lymington Harbour Master's Launch
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - At 11.10 p.m. on 3ist July, 1966, red flares were reported about 400 yards east of the entrance to Lymington river. At 11.28 the life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe proceeded in a southerly gale. The tide was...
Brionie
Selsey, Sussex.—On the evening of the 22nd April, 1939, the yacht Brionie ran aground two miles W.S.W.
of Selsey Bill, while on passage from Lymington to Newhaven with a crew of three. A N.W. breeze was blowing, with a...
The Wreck of the Fishing Vessel Gang Warily
The wreck of the fishing vessel Gang Warily pictured from the cliff top two days after incident - when the weather had moderated considerably.
The difficulties of carrying out a rescue in an onshore Force 7 wind with the... - View image in PDF
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Fun Day Launch
The David Lloyd club in Birmingham held a fun day during the Spring, raising £250 for RNLI Birmingham branch.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Splash
The chief of operations has written to the Commissioners of Irish Lights thanking the keeper and crew of the Kish Bank lighthouse for their assistance during a five-hour search for a yacht in difficulties. Without their help it might have...
Shenkin
YACHT REFLOATED ON RISING TIDE Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 5.35 on the evening of the 20th April, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was aground on the Shingles bank at the entrance to the Solent. The...
Daffrobani
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.— At 11.56 on the morning of Sunday, the 1st of October, 1950, the life-boatWilliam Gammon, Manchester and Dis- trict XXX was at sea for adjustments to her wireless equipment when the coastguard announced that a...
Firefly
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 11.15 on the morning of the 3rd of September, 1952, during bad weather, the coast- guard telephoned that a yacht with a man and woman on board, had an- chored a quarter of a mile north-east of the pier in a...
RNLI In Action
RNLI in action This quarter’s highlights of the many hundreds of lifeboat launches and lifeguard incidents around the UK and Republic of Ireland Month of mudness Helmsman ‘Tommo’Thompson and crew from Exmouth, Devon, rescued two 14-year-olds...
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