LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Whitley Bombing Aeroplane (2)
DECEMBER 9TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL, CLOVELLY, AND APPLEDORE, DEVON. On the afternoon of the 9th December Padstow No. 1 motor life-boat put out to the help of a Whitley bombing aeroplane which had been reported down in the...
For One Day During London Lifeboat Week In Hoth 1977 and 1978 Peter Elgar a Shoreline Member Set Up a Stand at British Airways Engineering West Base Heathro
For one day during London lifeboat week in hoth 1977 and 1978.
Peter Elgar, a Shoreline member, set up a stand at British Airways Engineering West Base. Heathrow Airport, using his own boat as centrepiece. In 1977 he and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sunderland Flying Boat
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT PLYMOUTH JANUARY 13TH. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON. At eight minutes past three in the morning a message came from the King’s Harbour Master that distress flares had been seen in Jennycliffe Bay, and at 3.38 the motor lifeboat...
Harmonie
ST. ANDREW'S, N.B.—On the 5th March, at about 1 P.M., during one of the most violent storms which has visited this coast for years, and amid blinding showers of snow, a schooner was observed being driven before the fury of the gale...
Huge Expansion In Work of R.N.L.I.
Huge Expansion in Work of R.N.L.I.
DURING the years 1963 to 1969 inclusive the Royal National Life-boat Institution opened 49 new stations and closed 11. In roughly the same period the number of calls by rescue craft...
Category: Articles
Lucky escape
LOCH NESS | 23 MAY
When kayaker Steve McQueen capsized in Loch Ness he was so paralysed by its cold water that he couldn’t swim the 15m to shore. Luckily, his friend made it back afloat and raised the...
Category: Articles
A Plastic Bath
At 1.28 p.m. on 14th August, 1969, the police informed the honorarysecretary that some young children were reported to be adrift in a small boat off Gailes shore. The life-boat Connel Elizabeth Cargill slipped her moorings at 1.35. It was...
A Dinghy
Ten rescued TOLD BY a member of the public at 1309 on August 10, 1974, that a dinghy being sailed singlehanded had capsized in Port Eynon Bay and her helmsman was having trouble righting her, J. Walter Grove senior crew member of Horton and...
A Sailing Dinghy
Moelfre, Anglesey - At 1.25 p.m. on 24th May, 1970, the coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy was rapidly drifting out to sea about four miles south east of the coastguard lookout. As the IRB was already at sea assisting a capsized yacht...
Lifeboats and Lifeguards In Action
Putting training into practice The crew atWeston-super-Mare were training in the Atlantic 75 lifeboat Coventry and Warwickshire on 8 June when they diverted to a real shout. A crew of five on a yacht requested assistance because of engine...
Category: Services