LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pilot Me
At 2.30 A.M.
on the 8th April the motor fishing boat Pilot Me put to sea to haul crab-pots off Marske, the sea then being rough.
As the wind and sea were increasing the Coxswain telephoned to Redcar at 7...
37Ft Oakley
Initially the 37ft Oakley had a completely open cockpit (left, below). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Anabisi
Moelfre, Anglesey. At 11.20 p.m. on 3rd September, 1965, the life-boat Watkin Williams was launched in a north-westerly wind of gale force and a rough sea to go to the assistance of a motor vessel whose engine had broken down five miles...
Obituaries
With deep regret we record the following deaths: August 1995 Lieutenant-Colonel Brian Clark CM GM, Former national organiser for RNLI in Ireland from 1967 to 1982.
September 1995 Tommy Dawson, coxswain of North Sunderland...
Category: Obituaries
Ma Jolie II,
Struck wreck WARDEN POINT COASTGUARD informed the deputy launching authority of Sheerness lifeboat station at 2046 on Saturday December 30, 1978, that a red flare had been sighted in Gillingham Reach. Maroons were fired at 2049 and at 2106...
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Howth, Co. Dublin. At 5.48 on the evening of the 12th of February, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that a boy had fallen over a cliff at Bal- scadden Bay. At six o'clock, when the life-boat Mary Stanford, on temporary duty at...
A long trawl
Second Coxswain Martyn Hagan was just sitting down to his tea on 26 June when a call came through from Humber Coastguard. ‘We have a little job for you,’ the Coastguard said. The ‘little’ job involved rescuing the 18m Hartlepool-registered...
Category: Articles
During His Years As President of the RNLI the Prince of Wales Named Three Life-Boats the First Being at Yarmouth Isle of Wight'
by courtesy of London News Agency Photos Ltd. - View image in PDF
'During his years as President of the R.N.L.I., the Prince of Wales named three life-boats, the first being at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Golden Charter
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Category: Advertisement
Gem, of Eyemouth
NORTH SUNDERLAND.— On the 24th August the Life-boat Joseph Anstice was launched to the assistance of the fishing vessel Gem, of Eyemouth, which had got ashore near that port during a strong breeze and heavy sea. The Life-boat, by timely...