LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Other IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 267, 283, and 304, the following launches on service were made during the months June to August, 1967, inclusive: Aberdovey,...
Category: Services
Barra Island:
Barra Island: At 0812 on Saturday July 21, 1984, Barra Island's 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat, Hugh William Viscount Gough, was launched under the command of Coxswain/Mechanic John Macneil, following a MAYDAY from the survey ship Geotek... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
"A Fisherman's Yarn"
IN 1948 Mr. Paul Rotha made for the Institution a twenty-minute film, with music and a running commentary, which was to show the Life-boat Service from the point of view of the fishermen from whom its crews are drawn. It was taken at...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy and a Boat
Whitstable, Kent. At approximately 2.15 p.m. on 8th September, 1965, the honorary secretary was told that a small dinghy with one person on board was in difficulties a half a mile off shore. At 2.20 the IRB launched in a strong southwesterly...
Life-Boot Launches on Service During the Months March, April and May, 1971
Aldeburgh, Suffolk Arbroath, Angus Arklow, Wicklow Ballycotton, Co. Cork Barmouth, Merionethshire Barry Dock, Glamorganshire Beaumaris, Anglesey Bembridge, Isle of Wight Blackpool, Lancashire Bridlington, Yorkshire Broughty Ferry, Angus...
Category: Services
Velocity, Frier and Bonne Mere
SWANAGE AND POOLE.—The Life-boats at these well-known places on the south coast were instrumental in rendering excellent service to vessels in great distress during the severe gales of November last. On the 23rd of that month the former boat...
Tumbler
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire.—At 12.10 on the afternoon of the 18th of August, 1957, the police reported that the yacht Tumbler, of Lytham, had been wrecked near the 14|-mile buoy in the Ribble Channel. The buoy had dragged several...
Anna
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 6.47 on the evening of the 24th of March, 1957, the Foreland coastguard telephoned that the Ryde police had reported a motor boat drifting off Sands Head buoy. The motor boat's engines ap- peared to have...
Bembridge
Walton and Frinton, Essex. — Just before midnight on the 21st of June, 1949, the coastguard reported informa- tion from the pilot cutter Bembridge that a steamer had struck the sunken wreck of the Fort Massac, about one and a half miles...
Isernia
STOKEHOLD ON FIRE Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 4.59 p.m. on I9th November, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that they had received a mayday call from the British trawler hernia stating that her stokehold was on fire. The life...