LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Northards
Humber, Yorkshire. At 11.55 P-mon gth February, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a trawler was aground near Spurn lighthouse and required assistance. The life-boat City of Bradford III was launched at 12.10 in a...
A Dinghy (4)
Appledore, Devon - At 9.7 a.m. on 28th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a swimmer had been reported near a capsized dinghy.
The life-boat Louisa Ann Hawker was launched at 9.40 in a light...
A Canoe (2)
Scarborough, Yorkshire - At 7.10 p.m. on 29th May, 1966, a tractor driver saw a capsized canoe with two persons clinging to it in broken water one mile south west of the life-boathouse. They were trying to make for the beach but due to the...
Lifeboat Services (1)
St Mary's Scilly Isles Some idea of the conditions during the Bronze Medal service by the Arun class Robert Edgarto the yacht Sacaro/ecan be gauged from these photographs. The pictures show the moment the 25ft Folkboat was overwhelmed...
Category: Services
Dungeness, Kent- East Division
The simple, almost stark lines of the the boathouse for the carriage-launched Mersey at Dungeness echo the emptiness of the low-lying shingle peninsula on which it stands. To the south the nuclear power station forms an unmistakable man-made... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Joan Maureen
Breaking up SOLENT COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Selsey lifeboat station at 2051 on Wednesday October 5, 1983, that red flares had been sighted close inshore off Selsey Bill and requested that the 15ft 6in D class inflatable...
Appledore- Tyne Class George Gibson
Appledore's new Tyne class lifeboat was named at a ceremony at the town's quay on 25 June 1988.
Major David Gibson, elder son of George Gibson, the donor after whom the boat is named, handed the boat over to Air... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An R.A.F. Aeroplane (1)
FEBRUARY 16TH. - MARGATE, KENT.
A message from the coastguard reported that an R.A.F. aeroplane had come down in the sea two miles north of the Reculvers, On her way out the life-boat picked up on her wireless the position...
Mimosa and Oona
AUGUST 28TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.
At about 4 in the afternoon, the sailing yachts Mimosa and Oona collided in a heavy westerly squall. They were both dismasted and in danger of being driven ashore on the rocks of The Steer...
An American Liberator Aeroplane
DECEMBER 28TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
An American Liberator aeroplane had crashed in the darkness and caught fire, but she was right under the cliffs, and the life-boat could not get nearer than 300...