LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hastings - Mersey Class Sealink Endeavour
Deck chair weather for the guests at the naming of the Mersey class Sealink Endeavour by HRH The Duke of Kent at Hastings on 21 September. (Photo Tony Denton). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr. A. W. Hawkes, of Waldringfield, Suffolk, Has Been 'Bottling' Life-Boats for Quite a Time
Mr. A. W. Hawkes, of Waldringfield, Suffolk, has been 'bottling' life-boats for quite a time. The three models shown here cover the period 1890 to the introduction of the 70-foot steel life-boat. Mr. Hawkes writes: 'Putting boats... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Arrow Belle
During the forenoon of the 19th January, the schooner Arrow Belle, of Aberystwith, bound from Glen- dower to Greenock, but then at anchor in the Bay of Dublin, parted from her cables and drove ashore near North Bull. A strong gale from the S...
Book Reviews
• The history of Britain's Coastguard is an extraordinarily colourful one, and it is surprising that hitherto no full history of the service has been published.
The deficiency has now been made good by William Webb in...
Category: Articles
RESCUE
Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues every year. Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the following pages for more reports:
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Category: Articles
Adolph Hennecke
Longhope, Orkneys. At 2.46 on the morning of the 9th of June, 1960, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a lightkeeper at Dunnet Head had seen a red flare in the direction of the Island of Swona. At 3.10 the life-boat Thomas...
Energy
CAISTER, NORFOLK.—The No. 2 Lifeboat Beauchamp was called out on service on the morning of the 23rd January and was launched at 4.20, signals of distress having been shown on the north part of the Barber Sands. On arriving there the fishing...
Obituaries
The following RNLI supporters, volunteers and staff have sadly passed away: Mrs Iris M Brookes MBE -fundraiser Mr Brian Caunter -Torbay lifeboat station Assistant Mechanic 1975-2001 Mr Charles R Chatterton - Horton and Port Eynon branch...
Category: Obituaries
H.M. Rescue Tug Adept
MARCH 17TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 1.51 in the afternoon information came from the naval authorities that H.M. Rescue Tug Adept, with a crew of thirty, was aground on Paterson’s Rock, east of Sanda Island, and the motor life-boat...