LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
IRB Launches. Rescues by IRBs in January were carried out by the following stations
NORTH-WEST DISTRICT Flint - At 10.44 a.m. on 25th January, 1967, news was received that someone was in distress in the river Dee. The IRB was launched at 10.52 in a calm sea and proceeded up river. She found a wild- fowler who had...
Category: Services
The Oil Rig Sea Gem (1)
Cromer, Norfolk. On 28th December, 1965, the No. i life-boat Henry Blogg was launched to search for survivors from the oil rig Sea Gem. A full account of this service appears on page 63..
The 35' Sloop Snowgoose
Single-handed sloop A RED FLARE was observed about three miles west of Needles Coastguard lookout at 1240 on Tuesday, October 5,1976.
A helicopter from HMS Daedalus, Leeon- Solent, took off to investigate and at 1300 found...
A Boat (2)
MARCH 12TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. At 8.45 A.M. a local man out in a small boat saw what he took to be another small boat drifting about a mile and a half N.E. of the Ballycotton light. He came ashore and reported it to the life-boat...
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
THE fishwives of Cullercoats carried out their tenth consecutive collection on behalf of the Institution on 1st August, when the Cullercoats and Whitley Bay Life-boat held its quarterly road exercise and launch. By collecting this year over...
Category: Articles
Raid on R.N.L.I. Depot
Early in the morning of 7th November, 1969, the nightwatchman at the R.N.L.I. Depot at Boreham Wood, Herts., Mr. Kazimierz Jastrzebski, who is 55, struggled with a gunman who was accompanied by four other men. One of the raiders fired a shot...
Category: Articles
La Bonne Sante
Margate, Kent.—At 10.55 on the morning of the 28th of July, 1956, the coastguard reported that a yacht was ashore on Hook sands. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched at 11.10. The sea was rough, and there was a...
Sailboards
Strong offshore wind results in four calls in an hour Hayling Island's Atlantic 21 Aldershot had a very busy hour or so on 8 May when she was afloat on exercise and then dealt with several casualties in quick succssion.
Dungeness Open Day
Dungeness open day, on Sunday July 29, included the blessing of the 37ft 6in Rather lifeboat Alice Upjohn by the Right Reverend Peter Chidgey of Lydd. More than 2,000 people visited the station during the day and just over £2,000 was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Maid of Loughshinney
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 8.30 on the morning of the 16th of November, 1955, the life-boat coxswain noticed a boat about seven miles to the east heading out to sea. She appeared to have stopped and was seen through a tele- scope to be...