LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mary Jane
In the early morning of the 19th August it was blowing a moderate gale from W.N.W., with wild squalls of wind and rain. At 3.45 A.M. it was reported that a fishing-boat when coming into the harbour had carried away her...
Ebb Tide
Ilfracombe, Devon.—At one in the early morning of the 7th of July, 1950, the coastguard transmitted a radio message received from the steamer Kocquaine. She was off Lundy in company with the motor yacht Ebb Tide, disabled by an...
Front Cover
Front Cover With so much spray flying there is no way of telling that this is actually Atlantic College's Atlantic 21 American Ambassador which Rick Tomlinson's camera has caught punching through a sea at speed.
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Category: Photographs
The S.S.Helen
Lowestoft, Suffolk, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. — 15th February, 1938. A report that the s.s.Helen, of Saltvik, Finland, had wirelessed that she was in difficulties had been received and the Lowestoft lifeboat went out. She...
A Ship’s Raft
AUGUST 18TH. - PORT ASKAIG , ARGYLLSHIRE. During the morning a ship’s raft was seen being swept down the Sound of Islay. A moderate northerly breeze was blowing with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Duke of Connaught, on temporary duty at...
The Fundraisers
Yankie Doodle Dandy Children attending Lakenheath American Elementary school at RAF Lakenheath ran laps for four days in support of the RNLI.
Nearly 1,300children took part in theevent and raised £4,353 in sponsorship...
Category: Articles
Fishing Yawls
Between 2 and 3 P.M. on the 24th December, a gale of wind suddenly sprang up from the S.E. by S., and the sea became very rough. Fifteen of the fishing yawls belonging to Arbroath were at sea at the time, and it was deemed advisable to...
Ocean Venturer, Success and Lead Us
CONDITIONS DETERIORATING At 8.50 a.m. on 22nd November, 1965, conditions on and near the harbour were rapidly deteriorating and two motor fishing vessels, still at sea, were due to return to harbour. The life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was...
Sule Skerry
Seven saved FALMOUTH, Sunday May 24, 1987: The 56ft yacht Sule Skerry was in the Helford River with a heavy swell running when a rope fouled her propeller and she was driven into a rocky cleft at the foot of the cliffs at Durgan, near...
Naming Ceremony at Rhyl
THE new life-boat at Rhyl is a gift from Liverpool. She has been built out of a legacy from the late Mr. A. R.
Marshall, who was for many years the honorary secretary of the Port of Liverpool branch of the...
Category: Inaugurations