LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
R.A.F. Speed Boats
Exmouth, and Torbay, Devonshire.— * 18th October, 1939. A message was received, at 7.25 in the evening from the R.A.F. that two of their speed- boats had broken down twelve miles S.W. of Beer Head and the motor life- boat was launched with...
Bogus Distress Signals
MR. HECTOR HUGHES, Labour M.P. for Aberdeen North, raised the question of recent bogus distress signals fired at sea off the Scottish coast in the House of Commons in January.
Emphasizing that Scottish life-boat men had put...
Category: Articles
The Floods of 1953
The Essex County Council has arranged for the extraordinary happenings at the end of January and the beginning of February, 1953, when large parts of the east coast were flooded, to be recorded in a splendidly produced and well illustrated...
Category: Articles
Lijnbaan
Caister, Norfolk. At four o'clock on the morning of the 30th of May, 1958, a life-boat shore helper saw a vessel I aground on the Scroby Sands. At 5.15, after consultation with the coast- guard, the life-boat Jose...
The Village of Carbost
The village of Carbost, on the shore of a sheltered sea loch on the west coast of the Isle of Skye, together with the villages of Portnalong and Fiskavaig, forms a small community mostly of crofters and farmers. One perfect summer day last... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Medical Mock-Up:
Medical mock-up: the rescue services' ability to deal with large numbers of survivors, many suffering the effects of burns, chemical contamination, compound fractures and other injuries was put to the test in a complex exercise off the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
H.M.S. Birnbeck
MARCH 27TH. - WESTON-SUPER-MARE, SOMERSET. At 8.15 P.M. it was learned from the officer commanding H.M.S. Birnbeck, that the motor vessel with a crew of four was ashore off Howe Rock, in Berrow Bay, and would foul the coast defences if she...
Gold Medal for Welsh Coxswain
Coxswain William Gammon, of the Mumbles, Glamorganshire, who won the bronze medal in 1941 for rescuing the crew of a ship wrecked among the coast defences, has now won the gold medal for rescuing the crew of 42 of a Canadian frigate...
Category: Articles
Loddon
JANUARY 26TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 8.5 A.M.
the coast watching station at Greenore Point reported a vessel in distress two and a half miles N.E. of Greenore. A moderate S.E. wind was blowing, with a...
The Motor Boats I'll Try and the Edward and Ernest
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—At 10.53 A.M. on the 20th November, 1938, several small motor boats with angling parties were out to the north of the harbour. The S. by W. wind was increasing and the sea was getting...