LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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SICK MAN TAKEN OFF DRIFTER Humber, Yorkshire. At 3.18 on the morning of the 21st September, 1962, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a member of the crew of the drifter Tea Rose of Fraserburgh was thought to have...
A Barge
On the 12th of December, 1955, the Swanage life-boat rescued the only man on board a barge which had broken adrift from a tug and was driving for the shore. For this service a full account of which is given on page 190, Coxswain Robert Brown...
An Aircraft
Wells, and Cromer, Norfolk. At 10.48 on the morning of the 31st of December, 1959, the coastguard told the motor mechanic of the Wells life- boat that an aircraft had crashed into the sea off South Race Bank buoy. At eleven...
Magrix
Swanage, Dorset. At 10.1 on the night of the 29th of March, 1960, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Magrix of Hull was ashore near St. Aldhelm's Head but was in no immediate danger. At 10.19 the life-boat R...
Gemini
At 1.46 p.m. on 5th April, 1970, the coastguard reported that a dinghy was searching for skin divers three quarters of a mile north east of Swanage pier. The life-boat R.L.P.
was launched at 2.2. When the lifeboat came up...
(Top) 12-009 Indicates a 12M Long Lifeboat
(Top) 12-009 indicates a 12m long lifeboat (and therefore a Mersey), the leading zero after the dash indicates aluminium or steel (aluminium in the case of Merseysi and the W shows that she is the ninth of the class to be built.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Silver Medals and sterling support
The RNLI held its Annual Presentation of Awards in London’s Barbican on 14 May, with HRH The Duke of Kent as guest of honour in his 40th year as the charity’s President.
The Duke presented Lifeguards Chris Boundy and John...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The new Life-boat Queen Victoria, sent by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to Bembridge, and named after Her Majesty THE QUEEN by H.E.H. the Duchess of EDINBURGH, on the 25th of July last, is a beautiful...
Category: Articles
Hannah, of Drobak
At day- break on the llth November, the barque Hannah of Drobak, Norway, drifted out of the Humber, during a strong wind from the N.W., accompanied by snow and sleet, the weather having been very stormy during the night. Eventually the...
Adventure
FISHGUARD.—During a heavy gale at N., shortly after midnight of the 20th Feb., the No. 2 Life-boat, The Fraser, was launched to the assistance of the dandy Adventure, of Bridgwater, which vessel was in a dangerous position near the Goodwick...