LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Flood alert
Volunteers from the RNLI’s Flood Rescue Team (FRT) evacuated people from their flooded homes in St Asaph, North Wales at the end of November. Crew members from lifeboat stations at Beaumaris, Conwy, Moelfre and Rhyl joined forces with...
Category: Articles
Two British Aeroplanes
JUNE 4TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
During the afternoon the Kinnaird Head coastguard reported a splash and the sound of an explosion bearing 360° from Kinnaird Head two miles distant, just after two British...
Cover Picture
by Richard Price The first Trent class to go on service, 14-01 Earl and Countess Mountbatten of Burma, pictured during her crew training course shortly before leaving for her station. She is exercising a high wire stretcher transfer with a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Polar Star
Margate, Kent.—At 4.9 on the after- noon of the llth of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht alongside the Tongue lightvessel needed help. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched at 4.23. There...
The S.S. Empire Breeze
FEBRUARY 6TH and 12TH, and MARCH 7TH.
- AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 11.45 P.M. on the 5th February the coastguard reported a vessel ashore at Druridge Bay, and the motor life-boat Frederick and Emma was launched 35 minutes...
Pounds Per Head
Children at the 217-pupil infant school at Marston Green, managed to raise £50 for the RNLI and have also bought souvenirs amounting to £150.
The photograph shows a group of the children presenting a cheque for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Troville
The s.s. Trou- ville of Newhaven got broadside on to the bar outside Newhaven Harbour on the 6th March, during a S. by W. gale and very heavy sea, whilst bound from Caen with a cargo. The crew of the motor Life-boat were assembled promptly,...
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Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 8.25 p.m. on i6th April, 1967, it was noticed that a vessel was flashing a distress signal west of the boom on the Kent side. The life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched at 8.59 in a gentle...
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Barra Island, Outer Hebrides - At 4.15 a.m. on I2th March, 1967, an expectant mother had to be taken to hospital at South Uist. The life-boat R. A.
Colby Cubbin No. 3 proceeded at 4.50 in a strong gusting to gale force...
The 46Ft 9In Watson Lifeboat Sir Samuel Kelly on Her Last
The 46ft 9in Watson lifeboat Sir Samuel Kelly on her last journey from Bangor Shipyard last summer to the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Bangor Road, Holywood. Sir Samuel Kelly was stationed at Donaghadee from 1950 to 1976 when she... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs