LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Stormalong
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.37 oil the morning of the 18th of May, 1955, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht was burning a flare near West Shoebury Buoy. At 6.10 the life- boat Greater London II, Civil Service No. 30, which had been...
Dublin Spring Sale from Page 203
from page 203 Opening time approaches and already a queue of visitors is building up. Forward publicity, arranged by Don Harris, deputy national organiser, had resulted in announcements of the sale by two radio stations; it all...
Category: Articles
A Boat
At 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the 25th August, two youths, aged 15 and 14 respec- tively, took a boat from her moorings in the harbour and proceeded out to sea.
OH getting clear of the harbour, it was noticed by...
High Seas
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
North Berwick-Scotland Division Perched on the promentary at the very end of the Firth of Forth (seen stretching away in to the distance) North Berwick can be a rough place...
Category: Articles
Friends, Provide Us and Serene
Cobles escorted in gale THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Flamborough lifeboat station was told by HM Coastguard at 1010 on Saturday October 15, 1983, that a number of Bridlington based open angling cobles were fishing north of Flamborough Head in...
Life-Boat Calendar and Christmas Card
THE life-boat Christmas Card and Calendar will have reproduced on them in colour the picture shown above. It depicts a life-boat rescue on the dreaded Goodwin Sands. The paint- ing is one of two presented to the Institution some years ago by...
Category: Advertisement
A Sailboard
Marooned on dolphin THE DLA of Morecambe lifeboat station was informed by Liverpool Coastguard at 1625 on Sunday October 17, 1982, that a board sailor was in difficulties in Half Moon Bay, near Heysham. Maroons were fired at 1628 and at 1635...
Burry Port
This is what to do with your lifeboat after she has come out of service for the winter: push her for 12 miles along the road between Burry Port, Dyfed, and Loughor, pass a few pubs on the way and with the sponsorship collected in each pub... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The 37-Foot Yacht Gannet (1)
JUNE 5TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. Two Americans left Liverpool in the 37-foot yacht Gannet to sail home across the Atlantic. With them was a third man who was to leave them at...
Charmaine
Margate, Kent. At 5.30 on the afternoon of the 6th of June, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had been drifting eastwards towards the North Spit buoy and was dangerously near Margate sands. The life-boat North...