LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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CLINGING TO BOAT At 4.55 a.m. on 23rd August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boat was reported to have sunk off Cardigan Island and her occupants had reached the island. The sea was rough, with a strong...
The Henry Blogg. The First Sea Lord's Tribute to the Life-Boat Service
IN December, 1945, the Institution sent to Cromer one of the first two of a new type of 46-feet Watson -cabin life-boat. In them, for the first time, the steering wheels were placed amidships instead of at the stern. This boat was sent to...
Category: Inaugurations
The Deep-Sea Trawler Boston Jaguar
Explosion at sea AN EXPLOSION, on the night of November 15, 1973, aboard the 300-ton deep-sea trawler Boston Jaguar, 37 miles 020° (T) from Cromer, Norfolk, left the ship without steering gear, with her mate killed and a crew member...
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CREWMAN SUPPORTS MAN IN SEA WHEN on 17th January, 1971, news was received that a man had fallen over the cliff about half a mile west of Anvil Point lighthouse, the Swanage, Dorset, life-boat R.L.P.
launched and made...
Dr. Harrison Broadbent on Top of the Cliff After His IRB Ordeal In Scratchell's Bay, Isle of Wight, on 10th April, 1966
Dr Harrison Broadbent On Top of the Cliff After His Irb Ordeal In Scratchell's Bay Isle of Wight On 10th April 1966 (See P 136). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Birgitz and Riki Pia
Lifeboat aids disabled yacht and sinking trawler in southerly galeA service which started as a short call to search for an overdue sailing dinghy, and which was cancelled almost immediately when the dinghy was located, eventually turned into...
Ethel Edith
During a fresh S. gale on 13th January, with a very rough sea, the Coastguard reported, at 7.49 A.M., that a ketch, which was found to be the Ethel Edith, of Faversham, carrying a crew of four and bound with maize from London to Great...
Lasting Legacies
The RNLI was left two extraordinarily generous gifts in Wills – £1M each – over the Winter.
Hugh and Molly Brown from Kinghorn (pictured) were longtime supporters of the RNLI. Their friend Charles Ritchie said: ‘Hugh...
Category: Articles
Emmeline, of Bourdeux
The services of this Life-boat were also called into requisition on the 31st December, on the afternoon of which day a large vessel, distant some eight miles to the eastward of Sidmouth, was seen flying a flag of distress, during stormy...
Wexford Aero Club
Eleven student pilots from Wexford Aero Club back home with their Beagle Pup aircraft after a gruelling day's sponsored relay flight round Ireland, with six crew changes. It was a complicated navigation exercise to test crew skills with... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs