LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Taunton (1)
The Steam Tug was called out on the 28th December to proceed to St. Ives to assist that Life- boat in saving the s.s. Taunton, of Liverpool. (See previous entry.).
The Ex-Pilot Cutter Tubby
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 8.35 on the evening of the 26th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a motor boat was adrift a mile and a half off Burry Holme. At 8.40 the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched in a...
Lily
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At about 6.40 P.M. on the 4th December, 1938, the coastguard reported that flares of distress had been seen to the N.W.
A light westerly wind was blowing, with a moderate swell. The motor life-boat Oldham...
Portrait of a Coxswain
COXSWAIN HAROLD COYDE, of the Torbay life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent. A member of the crew since 1953, he was second coxswain from October, 1960, to April, 1961, when he was appointed coxswain. In 1964 he was awarded a silver medal for...
Category: Articles
Club VIPS
Club VIPs hand over the cheque for the proceeds of the cocktail party to local RNLI branch chairman Richard Bushe. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Dutch 45' Steel Motor Barge Minnie Ha Ha
CLACTON COASTGUARD intercepted a message from Warden Point Coastguard to Margate Coastguard at 1556 on July 15, 1974, advising that red flares had been sighted by MV Moreton Bay between No. 9 and No. 10 Buoys in Black Deep Channel. Mansion...
Eroll Bruce Learning First Hand About Some of the Problems of the Norfolk Coast While Aboard the Wells Life-Boat.
Eroll Bruce learning first hand about some of the problems of the Norfolk coast while aboard the Wells life-boat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Converted Ship's Boat Sun
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 10.10 on the morning of the 29th of August, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that a man at Pittenweem had reported that a small boat was drifting towards the shore east of Pittenweem. It was low water when the...
Miss Ali Jane
Salvor rescued ON THE MORNING of Friday March 22, 1985, St David's 47ft Watson class lifeboat, Joseph Soar (Civil Service No 34), launched at 1022 following a report that a 40ft fishing vessel, Miss AH Jane, had lost power and was close...
The S.S. Gryfevale
DEC. 22ND. - TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND At 1.40 P.M. the coastguardtelephoned that a vessel had struck a mine north of the Tyne. The sea was slight, with a westerly wind blowing. The motor lifeboat John Pyemont was launched at 2.20...