LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lady Leila and Dawk Eeang
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 6.45 in the evening, on the 4th of June, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the North Goodwin Lightvessel had reported a motor cruiser apparently aground near Goodwin Knoll buoy. At 6.55 the life-boat Mary Scott, on...
Sunwood
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. — At 2.35 in the afternoon, on the 17th of October, 1950, the coastguard reported that a motor yacht, apparently deserted, was drifting, about a mile from Manorbier Point. At 2.45 the life-boat John...
Asia
The Humber, and Bridlington, Yorkshire.
—26th August, 1939. Rockets hadbeen seen, but the life-boats could find nothing. On her way back the Humber life-boat found the small racing yacht Asia, of Brough, which had lost her...
Little Zakery
Swanage, Dorset. At 9.22 on the evening of the 23rd of September, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man from the yacht Little Zakery of Hamble, which was ashore on a reef near Old Harry Rocks, had been landed by...
Casquet
YACHT TOWED AFTER ANCHOR CHAIN CLEARED Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 7.45 on the evening of the 18th June, 1962, the coastguard at Penmon informed the honorary secretary that an unidentified yacht was anchored about one mile south-by-east of the...
Marjory Gaw
PARACHUTE FLARES SHOW YACHT IN DANGER Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 9.5 on the evening of the 2nd September, 1962, the honorary secretary received messages from the coast life-saving service and the civic guards that rockets and flares had...
Braemar
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands - On 22nd/23rd May, 1967, the life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter was launched to the assistance of the yacht Braemar. A full account of this service will appear in the December number of the journal..
Aldeburgh: When at Low Water on August 17 1977 the 42' Beach Lifeboat the Alfred and Patience Gottwald Could Not Clear the Beach on Launching Aldeburgh''s D C
Aldeburgh: When, at low water on August 17, 1977, the 42' Beach lifeboat The Alfred and Patience Gottwald could not clear the beach on launching, Aldeburgh''s D class ILB was launched in an easterly near gale to go to the help of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
L'Espoir and Innocence (1)
Arun saves yacht and skipper after long tow in severe weatherThe RNLI's chief of operations has written to thank the crews of both the Falmouth and Lizard lifeboats following a service involving both lifeboats on 16 February...
The Jersey
On the 8th September the coxswain, when going out fishing, found a small yacht, the Jersey, of Poole, with four people on board, at anchor off Sandgate. Her skipper asked to be towed to Folkestone, but owing to the state of the tide this was...