LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Inflatable Canoe
LIFE-BOAT AND SPEED BOAT PUT OUT TO CANOEISTS Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 26th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an inflatable canoe was drifting out to sea off Jaywick. The life-boat...
Two Boats (1)
Three stranded A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC dialled 999 at 1937 on Thursday, September 3, 1987 to alert Milford Haven Coastguard to two boats in heavy surf off Broad Haven, moving towards Goultrop Roads.
A RAF Sea King helicopter...
Mary Stewart, of Greenock
SEPTEMBER 20TH. - WESTON - SUPERMARE SOMERSET. At 5.30 in the afternoon a message came from the Croyde coastguard, which he had received from the S.S.
Basiris, that a steamer was ashore on Weston Sands. A north-north-west...
Three Bronze Medals for Welsh Crew
THREE members of the New Quay, Cardiganshire, life-boat crew have been awarded bronze medals for gallantry for the rescue of a boy. One is the coxswain, Winston Evans, another the mechanic, Sydney Fowler. The third is a police sergeant named...
Category: Services
The S.S. Jamaica Progress
AU G U S T 1 S T . - B A R R A I S L A N D , HEBRIDES. At 2.30 A.M. a telegram was received from the coastguard at Kyle that a ship’s boat under sail with men on board had been seen at 9.30 P.M. the night before, five miles from Barra Head....
Whilst Filming the Tv Programme Highway
Whilst filming the TV programme Highway in Anstruther Sir Harry Secombe interviewed Coxswain Peter Murray. He was also invited to break open a gallon bottle of whisky at the Craws Nest Hotel releasing £255.88 to be put towards... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Top the 47Ft Tyne Class Has Served the RNLI Well
Top The 47ft Tyne class has served the RNLI we/I since her introduction in 1983, but the class will need replacing from 2003 when they reach 20 years old.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Consolation
At 4.25 P.M.
on the 27th August, the Coxswain of the Life-boat was1 informed by the Coastguard that a vessel was ashore on the South Beach. With all haste the No. 2 Life-boat Leicester was launched, and proceeded to the...
On March 20 In a Strong West-South-Westerly Breeze Newhaven's 44Ft Waveney Lifeboat Louis Marches! of Round Table Went to the Help of the Barge Dunord Which
On March 20 in a strong west-south-westerly breeze, Newhaven's 44ft Waveney lifeboat Louis Marches! of Round Table went to the help of the barge Dunord which, on passage from Lowestoft to Poole, was aground one mile west ofBeachy Head... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs