LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Launch to Radio Caroline Vessel
AT 9.30 on the evening of the igth January, 1966, the Walton coastguard reported that the motor vessel Mi Amiga, from which Radio Caroline broadcasts were transmitted, appeared to be dragging her anchor. Weather conditions were extremely bad...
Category: Services
Three Aeroplanes
AUGUST 21ST. - ABERYSTWYTH , CARDIGANSHIRE. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. While the life-boat was searching, another aeroplane was reported in the sea, and a third in distress, and a motor boat was...
'I name this lifeboat Storm Rider!'
Naming an RNLI lifeboat is a once-in-a-lifetime honour – an honour that fell to 14-year-old Rachel Fairhurst during a special ceremony in July ...
Our newest Shannon class lifeboat and her...
Category: Articles
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
Bbc Tv 'Blue Peter' Presenter Anthea Turner Looks on With Interest As the Naming Ceremony of Blue Peter Vi Proceeds Apace at Cleethorpes.
BBC TV 'Blue Peter' presenter Anthea Turner looks on with interest as the naming ceremony of Blue Peter VI proceeds apace at Cleethorpes.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Boulmer Life-Boat and Her Crew
The Boulmer Life-Boat and Her Crew. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Monica, of Gothenburg
JANUARY 26TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
The motor vessel Monica, of Gothenburg, had stranded, but the tide was ebbing and the crew were in no danger. - Rewards, £17 9s..
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
The Barrow Life-Boat Towing In the J.B.W. on 28th September, 1966
The Barrow Life-Boat Towing In The JBW On 28Th September 1966. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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MISSING BUOY TAKEN IN TOW Weymouth, Dorset. At 2.10 on the morning of the 29th September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flashing light had been seen south-east-by-south of Portland Bill moving west. There...