LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Edinburgh Lightvessel (1)
Margate, .Kent, and Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At about 3.55 A.M. on the llthFebruary, 1938, the Margate coastguard telephoned that Clacton coastguard had reported rockets near the Edinburgh Light-vessel. A north gale was bio wing, with a very...
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First aid for a doctor Kinghorn in Fife's Atlantic 75 Elizabeth Ann was launched just after 5pm on 20 July 2005 to the help of a doctor who had lost her footing while rock climbing at Hawkcraig Point, Aberdour, and fallen 15m onto a...
Notes of the Quarter
THE happenings in the first six months suggest that 1961 may well, in terms of figures, be an outstanding and possibly a record year in the history of the service. During these six months the Institution's life-boats were launched on...
Category: Articles
An Admiralty Barge
FEBRUARY 15TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 4.35 P.M. the coastguard reported that the naval authorities wished the life-boat crew to be assembled as an Admiralty barge was in difficulties in Peterhead Bay. An hour later the crew were...
It Is Not Often That a Champion Fighter Pilot Asks to Look Round One of Our Life-Boats. In This Picture, Taken Some Time Ago, But Only Recently Made Available to the Life-Boat, Group Captain Dougl
It is not often that a champion fighter pilot asks to look round one of our life-boats. In this picture, taken some time ago, but only recently made available to THE LIFE-BOAT, Group Captain Douglas Bader, C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C., the legless... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On the Night of Sunday May 28 Bridlington Ilb Launched to Go to the Yacht Pinkers Ablaze In North Bay the Yacht's Crew of Nine Had Taken to Their Dinghy But Could No
On the night of Sunday May 28 Bridlington ILB launched to go to the yacht Pinkers ablaze in North Bay. The yacht's crew of nine had taken to their dinghy but could not propel her and both boats were drifting together with wind and tide.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Martell Continues to Help the Rnli By Not Only Supplying Free Brandy for the Survival Kit on Board Every Lifeboat But Also By Donating Us Gallon Bottles of Brandy for Branches to Raffle During the P
Martell continues to help the RNLI by not only supplying free brandy for the survival kit on board every lifeboat, but also by donating US gallon bottles of brandy for branches to raffle.
During the past few months such... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Emma Louise
At 2 P.M.
on the 7th March the schooner Emma Louise, of Wick, bound to the Tyne with a cargo of paving stones, but then lying at anchor in Scrabster Roadstead, showed signals of distress, the crew fear- ing she would drive...
Paullgate
MEDALS FOR BLYTH COXSWAIN AND BOWMAN On the 18th November, 1962, the Blyth life-boat rescued two of the crew of the motor vessel Paullgate. For this service, a full account of which appears on page 402, Coxswain Thomas Fawcus was awarded the...
Redwings
Plymouth, Devon.—At 7.55 P.M. on the 1st June, 1938, a message was received from the Royal South-Western Yacht Club that a boat was drifting ashore in a dangerous position. A westerly gale was blowing, with a very rough...