LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Radio Ship Mi Amigo
Radio ship aground WHILE HER CREW were still on board after returning from a rough weather exercise on Wednesday March 19, Sheerness lifeboat received a VHP call at 1753 from Thames Coastguard telling them that the radio ship Mi Amigo had...
The RNLI and me: Jane Devonshire
The MasterChef winner on childhood summers in Dorset, writing a cookbook, and being known as Winklewoman
What was it like being on MasterChef?
It was surreal – that’s the only way I can explain it. You know when... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Just in time
Beaumaris lifeboat was called out to a mayday on 25 May.
A 7m boat had a rope caught around her propeller. Without power, she was drifting fast – when the lifeboat arrived on scene she was just 3m away from the rocks off...
Category: Articles
£25,000 Tynemouth Appeal.
In April 1941, the Tynemouth life-boat and life-boathouse were destroyed, in an air-raid, by two bombs which fell right on the house. In order to provide a.
new boat and house, an appeal was launched in February of this...
Category: Articles
Robbie
Beaumaris, Anglesey - At 11.15 p.m.
on 4th September, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that flares had been seen in the Straits off Beaumaris. The life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs. Smuts was launched at...
The Danish Motor Ketch Viking
OCTOBER 14TH. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 10.56 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel aground on Spittal Point. The northerly breeze was light, but there was a heavy swell. The motor life-boat J. and W. was launched...
Kiti
TOW FOR YACHT WITH THREE ABOARD Dungeness, Kent. At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 16th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulty off the power station. The life-boat Mabel...
Diddi II
Ilfracombe, Devon - At 9.35 a.m. on 6th April, 1969, it was learnt that a ketch on passage from Ilfracombe to Bristol appeared to be in difficulties.
The life-boat Lloyd's II was launched at 10 o'clock in an...
De Ruyter
JANUARY 10TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At 2.8 A.M. the coastguard reported a ship ashore in Cymeran Bay, near Rhosneigr.
A N.E. breeze was blowing, with a smooth sea. It was bitterly cold. The motor life-boat...
The Motor Fishing Cobles Joan and Mary, and Jean and Barbara
JANUARY 27TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
A heavy west-by-north wind rose, with a rough sea, while two motor fishing cobles.
Joan and Mary and Jean and Barbara were at sea, and it was decided to send out the motor...