LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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COASTGUARD, HELICOPTER AND LIFE-BOAT SEARCH Flamborough, Yorkshire. At three o'clock on the afternoon of the 2nd June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a boy had fallen over the cliffs. A helicopter had landed on...
Lerwick's Arun Class Lifeboat Soldian
Lerwick's Arun class lifeboat Soldian pictured attempting to tow the empty liferaft from the fishing vessel Premier. The wind at the time was Force 11 and the sea state the worst ever experienced by the lifeboat's coxswain. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tonmaur
DEAL.—On the night of the 11th November, at 10.30 P.M., the Deal Life-boat, the Van Kook, was launched through a heavy surf to the aid of the barque Tonmaur, of Fowey, which was fast driving to the shore near that place. With the assistance...
A Service on Christmas Eve
The Italian steamer Santagata, on the Goodwin Sands, from which the Walmer life-boat rescued the crew of 32 (Seepage 169). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis
On the 14th No-vember, 1860, the smack Elizabeth Ann, of Lyme Regis, culm laden, was driven ashore at the back of the Northern harbour wall, the Wind blowing a hard gale' from the S.W. at the time, and the night being very dark. The Lyme...
Cymbeline
On the following morning a schooner was seen stranded close to the spot where the Energy had sunk. The Life-boat Beauchamp was launched at 5 o'clock and on reaching the vessel—which proved to be the schooner Cymbeline, of London— the...
Life-Boat Crew at Buckingham Palace
H.M. the Queen invested each of the five members of the crew of the Moelfre life-boat who took part in the rescue from the coaster Hindlea on the 27th October, 1959, with the silver medal for gallantry in saving life at sea at Bucking- ham...
Category: Medals
£5 By Benefit of Theft
WHEN thieves broke into the Whitby County Club at the end of last year and robbed the till of £5, they also took a life-boat collecting box containing £11 10s. The Prudential Assurance Company replaced not only the £5 taken...
Category: Articles
Presidential visit
HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, visited Sheringham Lifeboat Station on 25 March.
The Duke met the crew, saw the launch and recovery of the Atlantic 85 lifeboat The Oddfellows, signed the visitors’ book and...
Category: Articles
Queen of Hearts
KILDONAN, ISLE OF ARRAN.—On the 11th February, at 10.30 A.M., the Life-boat Hope proceeded, in tow of the tug steamer Flying Sprite, to the assistance of a ship reported on shore on the Sliddery Rock, at the south end of the island. It was...