LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Ex-Ship's Life-Boat
Ramsgate, Kent - At 1.53 p.m. on 6th June, 1967, it was learned that a boat was in difficulties off the beach and the crew were firing flares. The life-boat Edward and Isabella Irzoin, on temporary duty at the station, slipped her moorings...
A Dinghy and a Boat
DOUBLE RESCUE Penlee, Cornwall. At 4.53 p.m. on 17th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small rubber dinghy with two skin divers on board was in difficulties two miles off Penzance. At 5.2 the life-boat...
All In a Row
Intrepid oars woman Jane Trembath, aged 70, battled against blustery conditions to complete her 25-mile sponsored row down the River Dart in aid of the RNLI.
Miss Trembath, using the same 14-foot rowing dinghy she once used... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Inflatable Dinghy
Divers in trouble FIVE PEOPLE in an inflatable dinghy in difficulty on the lee side of Dulas Island were reported to the honorary secretary of Moelfre lifeboat station by Holyhead Coastguard at 1408 on Monday August 21, 1978, and at 1417 the...
The S.S. Ballyhalbert
Troon, Ayrshire. At 2.30 on the morning of the 9th of January, 1958, the Portpatrick coastguard told the honor- ary secretary that the S.S. Ballyhalbert of Belfast was aground hah0 a mile north of Ardrossan. At three o'clock the...
Golden Grain
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 3 p.m. on 5th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Amy Johnson was about to land the body of a man who had been dragged overboard by nets, with another fisherman,...
Two Dinghies
Three boats TWO DINGHIES in difficulties were reported to the honorary secretary of Wicklow lifeboat station at 1655 on Monday April 16. The first dinghy, with two adults and five children on board, was a mile south of the lifeboat station...