LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Mustang Aeroplane
JULY 29TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. At 11.23 in the morning the Fairlight coastguard reported that a Mustang aeroplane had come down in the sea two and a half miles from Hastings. A light south-west wind was blowing, with a slight sea. The motor...
A Ski-Boat
Lyme Regis Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat returning from service on July 24, 1983, at the start of Lyme's Lifeboat Week. Manned by Helmsman John Hodder and Crew Members Robert Irish, Colin Jones and Brian Miller, she had launched...
Optic Illusion:
Optic illusion: it's difficult to ignore the lifeboat collecting box at the Nautilus Hotel in Benllech, North Wales. Wil and Jean Owen built their Lifeboat Bar after moving from Moelfre two years ago and have obviously taken some of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Tank Oil Steamer The San Ricardo
On the 14th March, during smooth but hazy weather, signals of distress were heard from a vessel. The No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was launched and was tracked by the crew to the end of the North Pier where she was picked up by a tug and towed...
A Rescue from a Fort In the Mersey
ON the afternoon of the 22nd of September, a south-westerly gale was blowing in the mouth of the Mersey with rain squalls and breaking seas twenty feet high. In those heavy seas the military authorities were afraid for the safety of -one of...
Category: Services
H.M. L.C.T. 398
DECEMBER 14TH. - STORNOWAY, ISLAND OF’ LEWIS. Shortly after midnight the naval base reported that H.M. L.C.T. 398, a tank landing craft, was ashore on the S.E. corner of Goat Island in Stornoway Harbour, and that her crew of fifteen had...
Cover Picture
Silver medals for outstanding gallantry were presented to three Hfeboatmen at the annual presentation of awards on May 22: to (/.) Coxswain Kenneth Voice, Shoreham Harbour, for the service to the Greek cargo vessel Athina B on January 21,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rescue from Trawler Aground Near Eilmore
About 10.45 on the night of Thursday, the 19th of December, 1957, the lights of a vessel passing between the two Saltee islands off the Wexford coast were seen from Kilmore Quay.
It was a wild night, and as the coast is a...
Category: Services
New Year Honours
Congratulations and heartfelt thanks to our RNLI volunteer crew members and fundraisers who have been recognised in HM The Queen's 2013 New Year Honours list:
MBE: Frances Kilner,...
Category: Articles
Jean Edmonds
Lerwick, Shetland.—At 10.45 A.M. on the 22nd February, 1939, a message was received from a trawler agent and the coastguard that the trawler Jean Edmonds, of Aberdeen, had broken down with boiler trouble, and had asked for the life-boat. The...