LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Matoya II
LIFE-BOAT RETURNS WITH YACHT IN TOW Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 3.45 on the afternoon of the 8th August, 1962, the Needles coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Matoya If had broken down west of the Needles. Ten minutes...
Clipper of Great Yarmouth
On the night of the 24th January, dating a heavy gale from S.S.W., guns were heard from the St.
Nicholas Light Vessel, and rockets were thrown up, indicating a vessel in distress.
The crew of the large...
Penlee Crew Members Pictured With Their Arun Class
Below: As the result of a coast review Penlee crew members /pictured with their Arun class Mabel Mice) operate an Atlantic lifeboat in addition to all-weather boat. - View image in PDF
Picture Carl Wilson. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
When a New Carriage-Launch Lifeboat Arrives at Her Station
When a new carriage-launch lifeboat arrives at her station she is immediately re-launched and then recovered again as a final check on the carriage, tractor and lifeboat and to familiarise the shorehelpers with the new equipment. Recovery... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hastings (Right): Following Her Handing Over and a Service of Dedication Held on That Blustery Sunday June 5 Hastings' New D Class Inflatable Lifeboat Cinque Ports I Was Launched Fo
Hastings (right): Following her handing over and a service of dedication held on that blustery Sunday, June 5, Hastings' new D class inflatable lifeboat Cinque Ports I was launched for a demonstration run. The new lifeboat had been... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Armistice Day
AT Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, in Norfolk and Suffolk, and at Whitby, Yorkshire, the Motor Lifeboats took part in the Armistice Day ceremonies on November llth last, and at Heck- mondwike, Yorkshire, the twenty-five members of the Lifeboat...
Category: Articles
A Small Boat (2)
— On the evening of the 1st June the coast- guard telephoned that a small boat, with two youths on board, was drifting seawards out of control. A strong squally S.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat M.O.Y.E....
Crimbria
At 9.30 A.M. on the 8th February the Coastguard re- j ported that the Girdler Light-vessel was firing distress signals, and shortly after- wards a message was received by wire- less telegraphy from a steamer stating that the Girdler...
William of, Londonderry
On the 1st March the brigantine William, of Londonderry, was seen driving into Dun- drum Bay, during a strong S.S.E. wind.
She had her foremast carried away by the deck, and was waterlogged. The Life-boat Reigate was...
Gloamin'
— On the morning of the llth January a man was injured on board the local fishing boat Gloamin'. There was not suffi- cient water for the boat to get into harbour and she made distress signals.
The crew of the...