LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
John Patrick
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.45 on the morning of the 7th of September, 1958, the coxswain was told by his brother that the fishing boat John Patrick was missing from her moorings.
The boat could be seen circling west of...
Avec Dieu
St. Helier, Jersey. At 6.55 on the evening of the 24th of September, 1958, the honorary secretary received a message that a small boat appeared to be in difficulties half a mile south of Icho tower. The life-boat Elizabeth Rippon put out at...
Dinkie
Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 6.30 on the evening of the 10th of July, 1959, the coxswain was informed that a sailing dinghj had capsized half a mile east of Cullercoats harbour. Five minutes later the life-boat Isaac andMary Bolton was...
May
Penlee, Cornwall. At 12.48 on the afternoon of the 18th of February, 1960, the motor mechanic told the honorary secretary that a fishing boat had broken down close to the rocks at Tol-Pedn. At one o'clock the life-boat W. and S. was...
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On the South Wales coast, Porthcawl was isolated by an extremely heavy snow fall on Friday January 8 and the roads in the surrounding area were blocked by deep drifts for six days. By Tuesday January 12 the local chemist was out of a number...
Tragic Search for Missing Girl
The difficulties of launching and recovering a lifeboat from an open beach are well illustrated by the photograph, taken while the lifeboat was on this service. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Relief Fleet-D Class Phyl Clare
Mr Anthony Oliver, deputy head of fund raising and marketing, accepts the new relief fleet D class lifeboat Phyl Clare from Mrs Phyl Cleare during the naming and dedication ceremony at the Poole depot.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cover Picture
by Frank Austin Penlee's Arun class Mabel Alice at speed during an exercise off the Cornish coast. The Tater-Dhu lighthouse is visible in the background.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Barry Dock August 8 1987:
BARRY DOCK, August 8, 1987: both Barry Dock's Arun and Penarth's 16ft inflatable were called out when this drilling rig, in use for the proposed barrage at Cardiff, broke through the crust of the sea bed and listed to 40 degrees. Two... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Josse
Crew overboard during yacht rescue The Thanks of the Institution on Vellum has been awarded to helmsman Duane Brown of Walmer lifeboat after the rescue of three Belgians from their yacht Josse,aground on the Goodwin Sands, in strong winds...