LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Flying Spray
At 4.40 a.m. on loth March, 1967, it was reported that red flares had been sighted at the south end of the Sound of Islay.
There was a fresh south-westerly breeze with a moderate sea. It was just after high water. The...
Madame Sands
At 9.38 a.m. on 22nd March, 1967, news was received that the motor fishing vessel Madame Sands was proceeding to Bridlington Bay with a mine on board. The life-boat crew stood by until 10.42 when a message was received from the coastguard...
For a Change the Endurance of Second Coxswain Peter Leith of Lerwick Is Being Tested
For a change, the endurance of Second Coxswain Peter Leith of Lerwick is being tested other than by hours spent at sea in bad conditions.
Here he is seen on the station's open day during an eight-hour non-stop sponsored... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dungeness, Kent- East Division
The simple, almost stark lines of the the boathouse for the carriage-launched Mersey at Dungeness echo the emptiness of the low-lying shingle peninsula on which it stands. To the south the nuclear power station forms an unmistakable man-made... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An R.A.F. Aeroplane (1)
FEBRUARY 16TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
A message from the coastguard reported that an R.A.F. aeroplane had come down in the sea two miles north of the Reculvers, On her way out the life-boat picked up on her wireless the position...
Support from New Zealand
Close to Mount Cook, New Zealand, stands a R.N.L.I. collecting box framed by a life-belt.
It has been placed there by Mr. Duncan Darroch, a landscape artist who has a cabin nearby.
Considerable sums... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
It's a Small World.
It's a small world. Reader S.
Johnson discovered that the custodian of Ivan Talley (an ex-RNLI lifeboat now working in New Zealand) was a friend of a relative.
His grandsons are pictured aboard the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Our Maggie and The Keel Boat Albatross
During the morning of 12th February, while four boats were at sea line fishing and crab catching, a heavy sea got up at the back of the pier, which made it dangerous for the boats to enter the harbour. The weather was very cold with snow...
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Fishguard, Pembrokeshire—During the afternoon of the 6th of March, 1947, the Ministry of Food in Haverfordwest asked the life-boat to take food to Porthgain as the roads were impassable owing to heavy snowfalls. It was arranged that she...
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North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At seven o'clock on the morning of the 17th of December, 1955, the life-boat coxswain noticed a flashing light on the Inner Fame Island. He knew that two Trinity House men had been painting the...