LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
On Their Bikes
Port Isaac crew members Richard Hambly and Greg Hingley raised £528 by cycling over 250 miles round Cornwall, visiting every Cornish lifeboat station.
The seven-day trek started at Bude and Richard and Greg were... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Eve Irvine,
Eve Irvine, vice president of Ponteland ladies lifeboat. Mrs Irvine was vice chairman from 1970 to 1975. chairman from 1975 to 1978 and 1984 to 1985 and vice president from 1979 to 1980 and 1986 to date..
Category: Obituaries
Elizabeth
On 16th February the ketch Elizabeth, of Bideford, when endeavouring to enter Bude Harbour in a heavy ground sea, got into difficulties, and was driven on to the rocks on the north side of the harbour, where seas continually broke over her,...
March
Launches 33 Lives rescued 136 MARCH 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. At 4.35 in the morning the Deal coastguard reported a vessel in distress off South Goodwin Light-vessel. A northerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. At five o’clock, the motor life...
Category: Services
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
Below: the Zetland Her Launching Carraige
Below: The Zetland her launching carriage. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
RNLI Director Brian Miles (Centre) and Deputy Director Ray Kipling (Left) Discuss the Sale of Waveney Class Lifeboats to Guillermo Perez Lavagnini
International cooperation in action. RNLI Director Brian Miles (centre) and Deputy Director Ray Kipling (left) discuss the sale of Waveney class lifeboats to Guillermo Perez Lavagnini, the president of the Uruguayan Sea Rescue Association.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
International Boat Show 1974
EARLS COURT, January 2-12DIM - BUT BUOYANTDESPITE a background of national anxiety, reduced opening hours and minimum heat and light, the 1974 International Boat Show at Earls Court was, as always, a buoyant and happy prologue to the new...
Category: Articles
Ira
GREEK STEAMER ON THE GOODWINS Walmer, Kent.—At midnight on the 7th of March, 1947, information was received from the Deal coastguard that an S O S had been sent out by a ship which -had grounded on the south part of the Goodwin Sands. A...
(Centre) the Atlantic 75 Simulator
(Centre) The Atlantic 75 simulator gave younger visitors a chance to experience a 'trip' on a fast rigid inflatable.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs