LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ayesha
Clacton - on - Sea, Essex.—At 11.6 in the morning of the 25th of Septem- ber, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht was reported ashore on the Barrow Sands, flying a distress signal, and at 11.30 the life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was...
Leicester City (1)
On the 22nd of March, 1953, the Stromness and Thurso life-boats both went to the help of the trawler Leicester City, of Grimsby, when she went aground three and a half miles south- west of Stromness. Fourteen men were picked up alive, but...
Fortis
Yarmouth, Isle-of-Wight. — At 8.20 in the evening of the 1st of April, 1950, a fisherman at Lymington telephoned that a yacht needed help. He said he had already towed her from a positionoff Christchurch to Lymington Spit buoy, but that she...
Large Crowds Gathered Four Times a Day to Watch the Combined RAF and RNLI Rescue Displays.
Large crowds gathered four times a day to watch the combined RAF and RNLI rescue displays.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
L–R: Edward Allen Presents The Award In Memory Of His Father To Architect David Bissonett
L–R: Edward Allen presents the award in memory of his father to architect David Bissonett. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Remarkably, the Whole Service Was Caught on Camera By Eastbourne's Honorary Press Officer,
Remarkably, the whole service was caught on camera by Eastbourne's honorary press officer, Eddie Buckland. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Silver Medal Service at Torbay
EARLY in the afternoon of the 9th December, 1938, the open motor crabber, Channel Pride, of Dartmouth, was overtaken by a sudden gale off Coombe Point, Dartmouth. She had two men on board. Her skipper decided to return at once, but the...
Category: Services
Shoreline
THE COMPETITION for the Renault STL car is still progressing well. The draw will be made at the Motor Fair at Earls Court on October 28 and the lucky winner will be published in the next issue of THE LIFEBOAT. Your response has been most...
Category: Articles
Commander P. E. Vaux, D.S.C., R.N.
(Late Chief Inspector of Life-boats). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Three American Inflatable Assault Boats
American Invasion' AS A TRAINING EXERCISE, three American inflatable assault boats set out from Calais on the morning of Tuesday, August 19, 1975, to cross the Channel, land and scale the cliffs of Dover.
However, the...