LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Marechal Suchet
Shortly after noon on the 18th February information, was received stating that a large ship was aground on the Shingle Sands. The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 were assembled and the boat launched. On reaching the vessel...
C.T. 8
On the morning of the 15th February, during a mode- rate northerly breeze, with a heavy ground sea, a steamer was reported ashore about one mile N.W. of Donna Nook, flying signals of distress. The Life-boat was launched, and when she reached...
Embrace
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 26th of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the hon- orary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Embrace of Hartlepool had fouled her propeller two miles north of the Heugh and was...
Dolphin (1)
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At eleven o'clock on the night of the 12th of June» 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of a report that the cabin cruiser Dolphin of Southend, on passage to Wallasea Bay was...
Virtutis Fortuna Comes
Humber Lifeboat alongside Iron Duke. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sovereign
Tyne saves crew of fjve from stranded fishing vessel Fraserburgh's Tyne class lifeboat City of Edinburgh was involved in a service on 11 September 1995 which although fairly short in duration was commended by the divisional inspector of...
Alice
During a moderate southerly gale on the 25th April the chief officer of Coastguard reported that a vessel was in the West Bay dismasted and in need of help.
The crew of the No. 2 Life-boat Thomas Simcox were at once...
How You Are Likely to End Up After Competing In the 'Daft Raft Race' Organised By Shetland Branch of the Scottish Sub-Aqua Club In Lerwick Harbour Crews and Their Craft In Last May's Race Were
How you are likely to end up after competing in the 'Daft Raft Race' organised by Shetland branch of the Scottish Sub-Aqua Club in Lerwick Harbour. Crews and their craft in last May's race were judged for ingenuity, bravery... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Yla Section
A night rescue operation had its sequel at Portsmouth when the Commanding Officer of a Royal Naval frigate handed over a cheque for £100 to the Royal National Life-boat Institution. The Frigate, H.M.S. Naiad, was on her way to...
Category: Articles
Ex-Lifeboats from All Over the Uk Got Together for the Fowey Lifeboat Rally In June
Ex-lifeboats from all over the UK got together for the Fowey lifeboat rally in June Photo: Nicholas Leach. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs