LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Slaughden, a Mile and Half South of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, Was Once a Busy Port. In the Late 1950S, When This Photograph Was Taken, the Longshoremen There Were Advertising Their Various Skills By
Slaughden, a mile and half south of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, was once a busy port. In the late 1950s, when this photograph was taken, the longshoremen there were advertising their various skills by means of painted signs.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Nora, of Liverpool
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. — Shortly after 4 A.M. oil the 23rd November, 1938, the coastguard telephoned that Corsewall lightkeepers had reported a a vessel apparently in distress near Milleur Beacon. A S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough...
Sail Drill With Motor Life-Boat (U.S.A. Life-Boat Service)
Sail Drill With Motor Life-Boat (USA Life-Boat Service). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Northerly Storm—Spring Tides: a Log of the Night of January 11 and 12 1978 By Michael Pennell
On the night of January 11 and 12, 1978, storm force winds blowing right down the North Sea coinciding with some of the highest tides of the winter resulted in severe flooding and damage down the East Coast of England and in the Thames...
Category: Articles
July 31: Aberdeen Lifeboat the 54Ft Arun Bp Forties Helicopter In Tow Photograph By Courtesy of Rnas Lossiemouth
July 31: Aberdeen lifeboat, the 54ft Arun BP Forties, helicopter in tow. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of RNAS Lossiemouth. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An American Liberator Aeroplane
DECEMBER 28TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
An American Liberator aeroplane had crashed in the darkness and caught fire, but she was right under the cliffs, and the life-boat could not get nearer than 300...
The RNLI’s Very Last Arun Class Lifeboat On Service (right) Is Finally Withdrawn, Replaced At Calshot By A Former Relief Tyne Class (left)
The RNLI’s very last Arun class lifeboat on service (right) is finally withdrawn, replaced at Calshot by a former relief Tyne class (left). The first Arun, named Arun, was built in 1971 and had a wooden hull. The last, Duke of Atholl, was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Cobles (2)
—On the 27th Dec- ember, when twenty of the fishing-cobles belonging to Filey were at sea, a strong S.S.E. gale suddenly sprang up, bringing with it a very rough sea. As the men in the cobles were in considerable danger the Life-boat Hollon...
Kathleen Claire
At 7.15 P.M. on the 9th June a mes- sage was received by telephone from the Civic Guards at Curracloe that a fishing boat was in distress in the North Bay.
The Motor Life-boat K.E.C.F. put out in a moderate S.S.W. breeze...
Fishing Boats (4)
On the 21st April, at 4 P.M., the Lifeboat was launched in a strong S.S.W.
wind and a heavy sea, and remained out three hours, rendering assistance to fishing- boats which had been overtaken by the storm..