LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

St. Ives, Cornwall - At 8.17 p.m. on I3th May, 1967, it was reported that an outboard Gemini craft had left Porthmeor Cove at 2.30 and had not been sighted since. The life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was launched at 8.50 in a...

Margate, Kent.—At 12.42 on the after- noon of the 24th of July, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht had run ashore on the Hook Sands.

At 12.50 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. XI was...

SEARCHING FOR AIRMEN Margate, and Ramsgate, Kent. — Shortly after 7.30 on the night of the 20th of November, 1947, the R.A.F. at Manston reported to the coastguard that a Wellington aeroplane was down in the sea north-east of...

(Below) Class reinforced plastic boats are laid up inside a mould so that a prescribed hull shape can be turned out time and again.

Each hull is laid up as a single piece of continuous material from stem to stern, with no... - View image in PDF

100 years ago One hundred years ago THE LIFEBOAT was also looking back - another 50 years to what it termed: A Noteworthy Jubilee from THE LIFEBOAT of 1893 Fifty years ago, Le. on the 20th October, 1842 there was laid to rest in her early...

Hartlepool, Durham.—At 3.30 on the afternoon of the 27th of September, 1954, a police officer rang up to say that he had seen someone waving in a fishing boat one mile north of Heugh Light.

The boat appeared to have broken...

Torbay, Devon.—At 4.7 on the after- noon of the 19th of April, 1951, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that an Anson aeroplane had crashed into the sea and sunk about a mile off Orestone Rock. At 4.20 the life-boat George Shee left her...

Rig supply vessel sinks after collision Cramer's Tyne class lifeboat Ruby and Arthur Reed II is pictured standing by the rig supply vessel St Mark shortly before she sank on 6 August 1990.

The lifeboat had been launched...