LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Duclair
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 11.3 on the morning of the llth of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that distress signals had been fired from a yacht between Worthing and Lancing. The life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis...
Life-Boats' Other Duties
There are other ways, besides saving life from shipwreck, in which the Life- boats occasionally do service. They have taken doctors to sick men on Light- houses, and recently the Tenby Motor Life-boat took bread out to a storm- bound vessel....
Category: Services
City of Bangor
PORTHDINLLAEN.—The schooner City of Bangor, of Bangor, was seen riding heavily at her anchors in Porthdinllaen Bay during a heavy N.E. gale, at about 9 A.M.
on the 28th October. In reply to her signals of distress the...
First Aid for the Shipwrecked
FOR a number of years there has been in Plymouth very close and useful co-operation between the Life-boat Station and the local Division of the St. John Ambulance Brigade, the Brigade turning out whenever the Life- boat receives a call, and...
Category: Articles
The Naval Patrol Boat M.F.V. 291
AUGUST 9TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. At nine at night the Bangor coastguard telephoned that a vessel was calling for help half a mile west of the Copeland Islands. A light variable wind was blowing, with a slight sea. The...
Wendy
Dungeness, Kent.—At 1.30. in the afternoon of Sunday the llth of July, 1948, the Fairlight coastguard tele- phoned that a sailing dinghy had cap- sized half a mile off Winchelsea beach, and the motor life-boat Langham, on temporary duty at...
Irish Leader
On the evening of the 23rd April the coast watcher at Curracloe telephoned that a boat, about one mile south of Curracloe, was flying distress signals. A westerly gale was blowing, a very heavy sea was running, and it was raining. The motor...
Below: Sir Kevin Tebbit Kcb Cmc
Below: Sir Kevin Tebbit KCB CMC, Permanent Under Secretary of State for the Ministry of Defence, and his wife.
Lady Tebbit, are joined by Tower Pier station manager Janet Kelly and Thames lifeboat crew members aboard Public... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Larissa
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—At about 6.80 A.M.
on the 3rd October, 1890, the second coxswain of the Life-boat reported to the coxswain superintendent that a barque had stranded on the S.W. Gunfleet sand, and on looking at the vessel...
A Surf Board
Surfer saved by inshore lifeboat in severe gale and heavy seas Helmsman Stuart Roberts of Porthcawl's D class inshore lifeboat was awarded a Silver Medal for outstanding bravery during the rescue of a surfer in very rough seas on 30...