LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats
Gourdon, Kincardineshire.—Bv ten o'clock on the morning of the 12th of December, 1956, a strong southerly gale had sprung up. The sea was very rough, and as the local fishing fleet was at sea it was decided to launch the life-boat....
Letters
Medal rescue recalled With reference to an article in your Winter 1986/87 journal The RNLl in Ireland you may be interested in a conversation I have recently had with my husband's 104-year-old grandfather.
When he was...
Category: Correspondence
Union, of Fraserburgh
AUGUST 30TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE At 11.35 at night the coastguard reported flares about one mile off North Head. A light south-south-east wind was blowing. There was a heavy swell. The motor life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was...
An Old Flying-Boat Float
JULY 13TH. - CROMARTY. Three soldiers had gone out in an old flying-boat float, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £7 10s..
Dib II
Weymonth, Dorset-At 6.16 p.m.
on 4th January, 1970, the coastguard reported that a distress signal had been sighted about five miles east north east of Portland Bill. The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her moorings...
Four Years of War.
In four years of war our life-boats have rescued 5288 lives. They have rescued more lives in these four years of war than in the last fifteen years of peace. They have rescued 25 lives every week.
Life-boatmen have been...
Category: Articles
Obituary
WITH deep regret we have to announce the death, on active service, of Lieut.- Commander H, T. Gartside-Tipping, R.N., a member of the Committee of Management, who was killed in action while in command of the armoured yacht Sanda, on 25th...
Category: Obituaries
After He Had Named James Cable He Went Aboard
. . . after he had named James Cable he went aboard for a demonstration beach launch over the skids and trip afloat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Touching distance
A severed finger, no engine, rough seas: that was the harsh reality a yacht skipper faced off the Devon coast at the end of April. So how would he reach hospital?
‘All we knew when we launched...
Category: Articles
The Yacht Poppy Ashore at Barmston, Nr, Bridlington, on 26Th May, 1969.
The yacht Poppy ashore at Barmston, nr, Bridlington, on 26th May, 1969. The Bridlington IRB is in the foreground.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs