LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Skiff
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 5.30 p.m. on i8th August, 1964, the bowman told the honorary secretary that a skiff was in a dangerous position in broken water near Hayle Bar. At 5.32 the inshore rescue boat launched in a fresh westerly breeze and...
Doric II
YACHT TOWED TO HARBOUR Ramsgate, Kent. At 7.40 on the morning of the 13th March, 1963, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground on the harbour bar and in need of help. The weather was fine with light airs and a...
John Edward King
John Edward King, coxswain of Bridlington lifeboat from 1965 to 1975 after serving as bowman from 1959 to 1963 and second coxswain from 1963 to1965. He was awarded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum in 1967 and 1969; the...
Category: Obituaries
A Yacht
Scottish crews out in numbers Ravaged by remnants of the hurricane season, the British Isles were soaked and windswept in late summer 2004. At the end of one of the wettest Augusts on record, the rough sea conditions off the northern tip of...
Surf Motor Life-Boats. An Experimental Type
THIS year two motor life-boats of a new, experimental type have been com- pleted and stationed one at Wells, Norfolk, and the other at Ilfracombe, Devon. They are a surf type, and are 2J tons lighter than the light 35 feet 6 inches...
Category: Articles
Yarmouth - East Division
Main photo {far left) Ref: 639489 Detailed photo (left) ftef 639472 Yarmouth, on the Isle of Wight, lies beside a harbour set in the estuary of the River Yar and is home to the busy Lymington- Isle of Wight ferry... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Thrum Hall School In Rochdale
On passage: a 24-hour sponsored sail to raise £300 for the RNLI was undertaken by nine 13-year-olds from Thrum Hall School in Rochdale. They took turns to helm a 16ft Wayfarer dinghy round Hollingworth Lake under the watchful eye of Lt... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Joanna Antoinette, of Holland
On the 19th November the Life-boat John Stuart was launched at 6 A.M., and proceeded to the schooner Johanna Antoinette, of Gravenhage, Hol- land, -which vessel had become a wreck on Cardigan Bar during the night. A " terrific gale...
Life cycle
Each Summer, Londoners Nick Pleydell-Bouverie and Rad Hart-George swap their suits for cyclists’ Lycra and head off on the next stage of their RNLI Tour of Britain
The ambitious idea was...
Category: Articles
Coromandel
19-hour service Dunbar lifeboat was involved in a 19-hour struggle to recover the stricken vessel Coromandel after it became stranded 25 miles east of Eyemouth in Berwickshire. The lifeboat crew endured conditions so rough that one member...