LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Holly
Twelve minutes of terror It took Port Talbot's inshore lifeboat crew just a few minutes to save a life at sea but the three found their training and courage tested to the limit On the morning of 10 January 2006 a call came through to...
A Liberty Ship, The American Motor Vessel George Hawley (1)
JANUARY 21ST. - SENNEN COVE, AND PENLEE, CORNWALL. At 3.15 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities wanted the Sennen Cove life-boat to go to a vessel four miles south-bywest of the Longships. A light northerly...
Noblesse
A narrow escape for Dutch couple at DunbarLifeboatmen and Coastguards hauled a crew of two to safety from a grounded yacht, seconds before falling rocks destroyed the vessel A state-of-the-art £100,000 yacht, Noblesse, was entering...
Christmas Cards and Calendars
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a reproducti on in colour of the picture on this page.
It is a photograph of the 41-feet Newhaven life-boat Cecil and Lillian...
Category: Advertisement
Late Port Errol Life-Boat Converted Into a Yacht
Late Port Errol Life-Boat Converted Into A Yacht. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jenny
Beam trawler ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1977, at 2132, the 23-ton beam trawler Jenny reported on Channel 16 VHP that she was in difficulty and unable to manoeuvre in heavy weather some eight miles south south east of Nab...
Dart
On 17th August last the Hoylake Life-boat was launched, late at night, to the yacht Dart, anchored off Hilbre.
A gale was blowing, with a heavy sea, the weather showed every sign of getting worse; and the yacht, unable to...
The Life-Boat Service In 1952
FOR the third year, in the seven years since the war ended, the Life-boat Service set up a new record. In 1952 its boats went out to the rescue 657 times. That is more than ever before in time of peace, and though the figure is considerably...
Category: Articles
Xepha and Sea Keveral
Yacht swept out to sea AN UNMANNED YACHT, Xephd, had broken adrift in Braye Harbour, Alderney, on the evening of Sunday May 5, 1985, and Coxswain Stephen Shaw of Alderney lifeboat, who is also the deputy harbour master, was aboard the...
Dayspring
DUNCANNON, WATEHFORD HARBOUR.— On the 3rd March, at about 1.15 P.M., a vessel was seen to be striking heavily on the Bar. The Life-boat Richard and Ann Warner was got out, but owing to the state of the tide, and to the wind being in a S.S.E....