LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Well Dressed:
Well dressed: the Derbyshire custom of well dressing is alive and well in Monyash, near Bakewell. This lifeboat theme was discovered by reader, Ernest Bidwell, who also spotted a collecting box in aid of the RNLI nearby. The designs which... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Janet
Thurso, Caithness-shire. — On the afternoon of the 27th February, 1939, the life-boat coxswain, returning from fishing, picked up the motor fishing boat Janet, of Thurso, with her engine broken down, about nine miles north-west of the Ruff...
Barrus
Together we build a better engine Lifeboats Roval National Lifeboat Institution Royal Has been relying on Mariner Outboard Engines from E. P. Barms Ltd for over 20 years.
These engines have been specially modified to the...
Category: Articles
Rfd-Gq Limited
Z-BOATS to the rescue...
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Category: Advertisement
H.M. Tug Attentif
FEBRUARY 14TH. - ABERDEEN . A t 9.35 P.M. the naval authorities asked for the assembly of the life-boat crew, as H.M. tug Attentif was reported three miles S.E. of Girdleness, with her stokehold flooded. A strong E.S.E. wind was blowing,...
Vaapiti
At 8.8 p.m. on 6th July, 1969, the coastguard told the second coxswain that a yacht was firing red flares one mile south of Anvil point lighthouse.
At 8.20 the life-boat R.L.P. was launched in a near gale force north...
Olive and Mary
ILFRACOMBE.—At 6 A.M. on the 8th April the Coxswain of the Life-boat Co-operator No. 2 was informed that a ketch was about six or seven miles distant in a disabled condition. He at once fired the signal to summon the crew and in six minutes...
A Small Boat (4)
JUNE 2ND. - RAMSGATE, KENT. Early in the morning the owner of the Guildford Hotel, Sandwich, reported to the police that his son and another boy had put out in a small boat the previous night. They had not returned, and the boat could be...
None (83)
DEC. 20TH. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
An explosion had been heard, but nothing could be found and it may have been caused by two mines colliding and exploding.
- Rewards, £6 7s. 6d..
A Fishing Boat (6)
Nov. 23RD. - HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.
A fishing boat had been reported ashore on West Hoyle Bank, but when the life-boat arrived she found no one on board. Her crew of three had already been rescued.- Rewards, £9 16s....