LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tumbleweed
Waves stop play - and an apt destination Minehead's D class lifeboat carried out a service on 23 July which saved two people and their yacht in difficult condition, but which was somewhat overshadowed in press reports by the interruption...
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The best thing about this job is the people
While putting Lifeboat magazine together, we get to speak with some incredible people. They all say they’re just regular folk, but we know they’re achieving extraordinary things....
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
BARMOUTH.—A large vessel was seen stranded on St. Patrick's Causeway on the morning of the 24th March, 1895. A heavy gale was blowing from S.W., the weather was thick and the sea rough. The Life- boat Jones Gibb put off at 8.15, and on...
Category: Services
. . . .Received By Way of Exchange, a Box of Chocolates
.... received by way of exchange, a box of chocolates. Alison, whose obvious surprise and delight caught the photographer's attention, is the daughter of a member of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund's executive committee.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Scarlet Buccaneer
Three saved as lifeboat crew battle storm force winds and heavy seas George Duffy, second coxswain/mechanic and Ian Sheridan, deputy second coxswain/assistant mechanic of Howth's Arun class lifeboat have been awarded the RNLI's...
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Search in breaking seas ON THE AFTERNOON of Friday, August 30, 1974, four young children were swimming in the sea off Golden Sands Chalet Park about one mile south of Withernsea ILB station. The wind was fresh and the sea rough and it was...
Bluebell
Kirkcudbright. At 4.45 on the morning of the 19th of November, 1958, a message was received from a resident in Kirkcudbright that cries for heJp had been heard coming from the bayAt 5.12 the life-boat J. B. Couper of Glasgow was launched in...
Two Rowing Boats
SIX RESCUED FROM TWO BOATS Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 3.45 on the afternoon of the 6th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that four children were in difficulties in a rowing boat off Proud Giltar. Twelve minutes...
The Last Moments of Port Du Hurel (Photo - Jersey Evening Post)
The last moments of Port du Hurel. (Photo - Jersey Evening Post). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Seaplane
DECEMBER 6TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
A seaplane had been reported down in the sea, but was later reported to be safe. While searching for her, the lifeboat found a barrage balloon partly deflated, but in the heavy...