LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dona Marika
Tanker aground A MESSAGE came to the Angle (Pembrokeshire) honorary secretary from St Anne's Head Coastguard at 9.8 p.m.
on August 5, 1973, to say that the oil tanker Dona Marika had run aground on Wooltack Point,...
Stavroula
Nine seamen rescued from coaster stranded on sandbank in heavy swellA service by Cramer's Tyne class lifeboat Ruby and Arthur Reed II on 21 November 1990 has been recognised in a letter of thanks to the crew from the Chairman of the...
Jenny
Ilfracombe, Devon - At 2 p.m. on 3ist August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was in difficulties off Rillage point. The life-boat Lloyd's II was launched at 2.10. The tide was flooding. The life...
Cave Search
On the evening of 18th June, 1970, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of the Walmer inshore rescue boat that two people had been cut off by the tide in St. Margaret's bay. At 9.30 the IRB crew were summoned. They launched 14...
Category: Services
Rod Looking Out Towards the Rocks and Gully Between
Rod looking out towards the rocks and gully between Little Fistral Bay and Fistral Beach. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Diana III
Walton and Frinton, Essex. — About 6.15 in the evening, on the 8th of April, 1950, the Walton coastguard telephoned a message from the Felixstowe coast- guard, that a yacht near the Black Stakes, north-west of the Naze, seemed to be in...
An Admiralty Tug (1)
THREE LIFE-BOATMEN OVERBOARD NOVEMBER 9TH - 10TH. - MONTROSE, AND BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. Shortly after six in the evening an Admiralty tug was bombed from the air. The Montrose coxswain saw the bombs dropping. Thinking that the life-boat...
Left: Ron Cannon With Margate's Trent Class Lifeboat, Esme Anderson
Lett: Ron Cannon with Margate's Trent class lifeboat, Esme Anderson. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Howard
Peterhead, Aberdeenshlre.—At 6.35 on the evening of the 29th of May, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the steam trawler Howard, of Hull, had wirelessed that she had a very sick man on board and had asked if the life-boat would take...
Jenny Rose
Selsey, Sussex. At 6 p.m. on 8th January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a white flashing light had been observed a half a mile south of Chichester Harbour. A R.A.F.
helicopter from No. 22...