LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Racing Dinghies (1)
Five lifeboats rescue racing dinghies Lifeboats from Hartlepool.Teesmouth and Redcar launched to help 30 dinghies that capsized in gale-force winds on 28 August. The dinghies, competing in a 100-strong race in Hartlepool Bay, were caught out...
Boy's Own, Excelsior, Irene, Premier II & Victory
At 4 A.M. on the 15th November several fishing boats were at sea. The wind was blowing fresh from the S.E., the sea was making, and several of the boats were running for shelter. The life-boat crew stood by until, at seven o'clock, the...
Diana
YACHT TAKEN IN TOW TO HARBOUR Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 11.51 on the morning of the 28th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the auxiliary yacht Diana, of Shoreham, which had a crew of three, was burning red...
Viking
MOTOR CRUISER FOUND IN TOW OF SMACK Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.45 on the evening of the 9th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of reports that red flares had been seen in the direction of Buxey Sands, and at 10.5 the...
Front Cover
Sennen Cove's Mersey class The Four Boys catches the evening sunlight as she heads away from the the Cornish coast on exercise. - View image in PDF
Photo by Rick Tomlinson. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Canoes, Yachts and Rafts
D class lifeboat rescues 36 people from canoes, yacht and raftsCleethorpes' D class inflatable liferaft was involved in three services on one day on 30 July 1989, rescuing no less than 36 people. The first service started as the crew...
Cergio
HELP FOR YACHT AFTER TOW-ROPE PARTS St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 26th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Cergio was in tow of the French trawler Belle Garce thirteen...
Emerald and Aristides
BROUGHTY FERRY.—On the 4th of September two vessels were reported to be ashore at the mouth of the River Tay. A severe south-easterly "gale was blowing at the time, and a heavy sea was breaking on the Tay Bar. The English Mechanic...
A Steamer (40)
NOVEMBER 6TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
A steamer had struck a mine, but she had sunk by the time the life-boat arrived.
The life-boat was then asked by a destroyer to search for a boat containing seven of...
An Aeroplane (120)
SEPTEMBER 28TH. - BEMBRIDGE ISLE OF WIGHT. The life-boat, crew had assembled for an exercise, but this was cancelled when the air raid siren sounded. Before the men left the station they saw a British aeroplane come down in the sea two miles...