LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Herring Boat Fisher Lads
Dungeness, Kent. At 8.10 a.m. on 3rd November, 1965, a local fisherman told the honorary secretary that a fishing boat, half a mile south of Dungeness, was flying a distress signal. The lifeboat Mabel E. Holland was launched at 8.28 a.m. in...
Flood alert
Volunteers from the RNLI’s Flood Rescue Team (FRT) evacuated people from their flooded homes in St Asaph, North Wales at the end of November. Crew members from lifeboat stations at Beaumaris, Conwy, Moelfre and Rhyl joined forces with...
Category: Articles
A Vessal Called Seierskrandsen
In re- sponse to a message on the 3rd August stating that a vessel was ashore on the Loe Bar, the Life-boat John Francis White was launched at 8.15 P.M. The Life-boat proceeded to the bar and met the men belonging to the stranded vessel in...
Thomas and Richard, and Lady Morris
WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.—At about 10.30 A.M., on the 7th February, two cobles, the Thomas and Richard and the Lady Morris, which had left the harbour for the fishing ground some six hours previously, were seen returning. The first boat, when about...
The Netherlands-Registered Yacht Rose Bank (1)
Determination in appalling conditions saves four 1-iftbtial.
Coxswain/Mechanic Ian Firman was awarded the RNLI's Bronze medal, and his six-man crew received medal service certificates, following a hazardous rescue of...
John
A northerly gale of exceptional severity sprang up with the suddenness—it is reported—of a "clap of thunder," and the Life-boat Queensbury was called out to assist some cobles in distress, but as help reached them from another...
A Boat
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.20 in the evening, on the 5th of May, 1950, the Cementation Company said that aboat was in danger of drifting out to sea with a large section of the boom off Shoeburyness. It had three of their men aboard, who...
A Boat
Humber, Yorkshire. At 9.57 on the morning of the 6th of June, 1958, the Spurn Point coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a man had made fast in a small boat to a float of the Admiralty boom half a mile north of the life-boat...
The Loss Of A Comrade
The loss of a comrade It is almost 10 years since RNLI Coxswain Hewitt Clark and Coastguard Winchman Billy Deacon attended the Green Lily, struggling in ferocious conditions off the Shetland Isles. Only one of these two brave men was to...
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Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE by Mike Floyd The Princess Roval (Civil Service No.
41) is launched for the first time at St Ives in Cornwall. The Mersey class lifeboat arrived at the station on 16 October and was recovered and immediately... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs