LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Margaret Ann
Flamborough, Yorkshire. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 27th of November, 1960, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the local fishing coble Margaret Ann was at sea. There was a strong north-easterly wind with a rough sea,...
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MATERNITY CALL Galway Bay. At 11.30 a.m. on 8th April, 1964, the nurse on Middle Island told the honorary secretary that a maternity patient needed hospital treatment on the mainland. As no other boat was available the honorary secretary...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Stanley Smith, of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, who retired in August of this year, after twenty-seven years of service in the life-boat. He has been in it since the station was estab- lished in 1924. He...
Category: Articles
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Skin diver missing AT 1335 ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 1987, Humber Coastguard informed the station honorary secretary at Fiamborough lifeboat station, that a skin diver was missing off Fiamborough Head.
He agreed to an immediate...
The Life-Boat Service In 1947
IN 1947 life-boats went out to the help of vessels in distress 587 times and rescued 427 lives. • There were fewer launches, and fewer lives rescued, than in 1946, but these two years are together the busiest that the Lifeboat Service has...
Category: Services
Inshore Lifeboat Services December 1978 January and February 1979
Aberdovey, Gwynedd December 8 Abersoch, Gwynedd December 10 Atlantic College, South Glamorgan February 24 Beaumaris, Gwynedd January 1 and 17 Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland December 16 Blackpool, Lancashire February 26 and 28 Broughty...
Category: Services
37' 6" Rather Class Lifeboat a Development of the 37' Oakley Redesigned So That Self-Righting Potential Is Derived Entirely from Hull Form Volume of Superstructure Is Sub
37' 6" Rather class lifeboat, a development of the 37' Oakley redesigned so that self-righting potential is derived entirely from hull form. Volume of superstructure is substantially increased to give buoyancy necessary to right... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Audacity (1)
New Quay, and Aberystwyth, Cardigan- shire.—At 9.23 in the morning of the 9th of January, 1952, the Fishguard coastguard telephoned the New Quay life-boat station that the tanker Audacity, of London, was in difficulties with a broken...
Tinker
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.5 on the morning of the 21st of September, 1953, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht anchored two miles north-east of the Nore Towers had asked for a tow. At 7.30 the life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No...
Two Dinghies (1)
Ennal's Point crew ON THURSDAY June 4, 1981, The Mumbles D class inflatable lifeboat was at sea taking part in filming for the BBC 2 series 'Ennal's Point' when, at 1930, a dinghy capsized with Gareth Armstrong, one of the...