LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rescue from Capsized Speedboat
THE two members of the crew of the Easmey, Hampshire, inshore rescue boat, Helmsman Robert Faro and Roy Richards, have each been accorded the thanks of the R.N.L.I. inscribed on vellum for rescuing two people from a speedboat which capsized...
Category: Services
Atlantic 21 Rigid Inflatable Lifeboat B539
At/antic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat B539 is stationed at Brighton. Note that her helmsman is steering with his left hand, keeping his right on the throttles.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tilda
Dungeness, Kent.—At 12.32 on the early morning of the 27th of November, 1950, the Lade coastguard telephoned that a vessel was aground half a mile west of Jury's Gap. At 12.42 the life- boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched in a...
A Fishing Coble
DECEMBER 7TH. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.
A fishing coble was at sea in very rough weather, but was able to reach safety without help. - Rewards, £12 12s. 6d..
Fishing Cobles (1)
Newbiggin, Northumberland.—On the 19th of February, 1951, several local fishing cobles were at sea in bad weather.
By 1.30 in the afternoon the weather had got worse. Three cobles were still out and it was thought...
Eventide
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— On the morning of the 15th of October, 1955, the weather worsened while several fishing boats were still at sea.
By ten o'clock all of them had returned to harbour except the local...
A Rowing Boat and Red Robin
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 2.8 on the afternoon of the 26th of June, 1956, the Foreland coastguard telephoned that a small rowing boat appeared to be in difficulties off Yaveiiand Fort.
At 2.22 the life-boat Jesse Lumb...
Spray and Cabin Cruiser Dolphin
Sal combe, South Devon - At 12.58 p.m. on I2th March, 1967, a motor fishing vessel and a cabin cruiser appeared to be in difficulties off Lannicombe Bay. Conditions were deteriorating and a gale warning was in force. The life-boat The Baltic...
Ishbara
TOW FOR CONVERTED LIFE-BOAT Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 12.38 on the afternoon of the 2nd June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a converted R.N.L.I.
life-boat, ketch-rigged, was showing distress...
A Glider (1)
SEPTEMBER 18TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
At 1.38 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a glider was down in the sea one and a half miles south-east of Aldeburgh.
A north-easterly wind was blowing,...