LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
On Easter Sunday the Eight Young Ladies Shown Here, Dressed In R.N.L.I. Jerseys and Red Mini-Skirts, Walked from Tower Bridge to Hyde Park Corner
On Easter Sunday the eight young ladies shown here, dressed in R.N.L.I.
jerseys and red mini-skirts, walked from Tower Bridge to Hyde Park Corner— a distance of 20 miles—circumnavigating the city and West End. Organisations... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shoreline
TO MAKE A CHANGE from the usual Shoreline page, I have asked Linda Grainger, one of my assistants, to write about the work of herself and her colleagues.
First of all, however, I am pleased to announce that RNLB Shoreline...
Category: Articles
Inshore Rescue Boats on Service
Launches on service from 1st September to 3oth November, 1965, which resulted in the rescue of people in difficulties are described in chronological order below.
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire. At 12.50 p.m. on ist September,...
Category: Services
Calshot (Above): Every Five Months Or So 40001 Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde Is Slipped on a Sunday Mid-Day Tide to Be Cleaned Below the Waterline
Calshot (above): Every five months or so 40.001, Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde, is slipped on a Sunday mid-day tide to be cleaned below the waterline. Crew and helpers rally round and she comes out at about 0900 and is back again... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annabel II
Capsized motor cruiser AT 1150 ON FEBRUARY 22, Skipper Tony Meyler, on board MFV Western Seas lying alongside in Aberystwyth Harbour, was told by Peter Kokelaar that the motor cruiser Annabel II had just capsized in heavy surf near the...
An Aeroplane (34)
JUNE 20TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, S.E. of Beadnell, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £15 3s. 6d..
Spray
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 8.30 P.M. on the 18th August the Wyke coastguard reported a small craft in distress off Ringstead. A moderate breeze was blowing, with a very choppy sea. The motor life-boat William and Clara Ryland was launched at 8.38...
Margaret and Jane and Presilla
The No. 2 Life-boat, John Fielden, was launched at 8 A.M. on the 22nd January, in an E.S.E. gale and heavy sea, to the as- sistance of the fishing-boats Margaret and Jane and Priscilla, of Filey, and rescued the crews of eight men. The boats...
Yimkin
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. — On the morning of the 31st of August, 1952, it was reported that a small yacht had capsized between Black Rock Buoy and Hurst Point, and at 11.35 the life-boat S.G.E. left her moorings. The sea was rough, with a...
Books
• Writers of fictional sea stories invent a hero, perhaps a villain and a few horrendous storms, then throw in a little romance to hold the interest of the reader. Life, of course, does not fit such neat patterns and only two parts of the...
Category: Articles