LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Norian
Plymouth, Devon - At 7.43 p.m. on 27th September, 1966, news was received that the yacht Norian had broken down in heavy seas twenty two miles south south east of Eddystone, and was asking for the assistance of a tug and a life-boat. The...
A Dinghy and Team
At 11.30 a.m. on 3oth April, 1967, news was received that a small dinghy had broken down one and a half miles off shore. The IRB was launched and the coastguard then reported that a red flare had been sighted from another boat. The IRB -was...
Glance and Glide
BROADSTAIRS AND RAMSGATE. — The brigantines Glance and Glide, of Ramsgate, both bound for Ramsgate from the north with coal, came into collision off the North Foreland in a strong E.N.E. gale, snow squalls, and a heavy sea on the morning of...
Vixen
On the 9th April the small steam-tug the Vixen, of Shields, was ob- served at anchor in a heavy sea from .E.N.E., with a flag of distress flying. The Cromer Lifeboat, the Benjamin Band Cabbett, was launched through a heavy surf to her...
(Left) Lt-Cdr Roy Portchmouth
(Left) Lt-Cdr Roy Portchmouth staff inspector (operational developments, trials and sea training).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Enfant de Bretagne (1)
Trawler taking water A FRENCH TRAWLER, Enfant de Bretagne, broadcast a Mayday call on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 2, 1975, saying that she was taking water in heavy weather in position 320°M 18 miles from St Ives Head. This...
Coxswain Richard Evans of Moelfre
The first winner of the gold medal for gallantry for ten years. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Later the Queen and the Duke Moved Among Their Guests on the Palace Lawns: Never Before Have So Many Lifeboat Supporters Been Found at One Place at One Time
Later the Queen and the Duke moved among their guests on the palace lawns: never before have so many lifeboat supporters been found at one place at one time.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Maraat V
Caister, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 4.15 on the afternoon of the 8th of January, 1953, the Great Yarmouth coastguard tele- phoned a message to the Caister life- boat station from Palling that a vessel had gone ashore half...