LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tia Maria III
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 4.2 p.m. on 27th November, 1968, the coastguard told the coxswain that a yacht was in difficulties close inshore in Font-y-Gary bay. The life-boat Arthur and Blanche Harris, on evaluation trials at the station...
Nautical star
TV presenter, writer and adventurer Ben Fogle immersed himself in the RNLI’s past and present during his latest on-screen project …
It’s a crisp, cold January morning off the south Devon coast,...
Category: Articles
Sir Winston Churchill
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL illuminated so many aspects of our life with the majesty of his words that it is hardly surprising that some of the most stirring sentences ever spoken about a life-boat were uttered by him.
The...
Category: Articles
A Small Tank Steamer
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—23rd November, 1938. A small tank steamer, with her engine broken down, had dragged her anchor near the West Sunk Sands, but she did not need help.
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Top Left: Hartlepool's Waveney the Scout
Top left: Hartlepool's Waveney The Scout with the Teesmouth lifeboat in June 1994, a year after her capsize on service.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Below) If a Tow Line Is Put Aboard It Will Be Longer Than You Might Expect -
(Below) If a tow line is put aboard it will be longer than you might expect - Frank Smith of Salcombe never uses less than 120 metres, and if there's any sea it could be 200 metres longer than that.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Letters
COINS AND STAMPS 0 Many thanks for putting my article on coins and stamps in the October Journal. One small point is that we gave the prices as at September, 1972, whereas they were September 1971. As forecast, the common varieties have...
Category: Correspondence
Gaidan
FLAMBOROUGH, Sunday May 12,1985: Flamborough's 37ft Oakley class lifeboat, Will and Fanny Kirby, launched at 1207. The Filey fishing coble, Gaidan, had been crabbing close in under the cliffs, north of Flamborough Head. The weather was...
October (1)
KINLOSS, ELGINSHIRE. At 11.40 in the morning of the 27th August, 1941, it was reported to the Burghead coastguard hy the R.A.F. at Kinloss, that an aeroplane had come down in the sea two miles north of Kinloss. Three men put out from...
Category: Services