LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Suzy Jane
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. The police reported at 10.55 P-m- on 4tn July> I965» that flares had been seen south-east of Caldy Island. The life-boat Henry Cotnber Brown was launched at 11.12 in a light northerly breeze. There was a slight...
Lucelle
SOUGHT REFUGE New Brighton, Cheshire. At 6.30 a.m. on 6th September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Lucelle, with fuel trouble, had taken refuge alongside the Bar lightvessel in rough seas and a...
Life-Boat Day at Filey
Launching the Life-boat on 9th August with the sons of H.R.H. Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood, on board.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Anonymous Gift
IN September the Institution received an anonymous gift of £10,000 from a member of the Royal Thames Yacht Club. The gift was made, in the words of the donor, "in admiration of the magnificent work of the Institution" and as...
Category: Donations
Cymro, of Amlwch
On the 8th April, the smack Cymro, of Amlwch, was observed with a signal of distress flying, in Moelfre Bay, during a strong easterly wind. This life-boat put off and succeeded in saving the smack's crew of 2 men. The vessel...
A Speed Boat
RSPCA award ON WEDNESDAY AugUSt 12, 1981, Hlinstanton's D class inflatable lifeboat was called to a speedboat which, unoccupied except for a dog, was spinning round and round out of control off South Beach. The man who had been driving...
Oyster Catcher
Walton and Frinton, Essex. — About 1.50 in the afternoon of the 8th of June, 1947, the coastguard tele- phoned that a small yacht had capsized two OT three miles out, south of the Medusa Buoy, and the motor life-boat E.M.E.D. left her...
Boston Heron
MINISTER OF TRANSPORT EXPRESSES THANKS Stornoway, Hebrides. At 9.30 on the evening of the 3rd December, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a mayday distress signal had been heard from a vessel and that they were trying...
The Hythe Life-Boat Crew's Concert
A CONCERT, largely arranged and carried out by the Crew of the Motor Life-boat, was held at Hythe, Kent, on 29th and 30th January last. The notices warned purchasers of tickets that if a call for the Life-boat came, the concert would be...
Category: Articles
'Their hearts must have sunk as they watched us pass them'
It was an overcast morning on 26 August when a father and son began their fishing holiday in Cruden Bay, Aberdeen - a trip that gave them more drama than they bargained for
RNLI Peterhead...
Category: Articles