LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Surfboard
Surfer saved RNLI lifeguards battled adverse conditions on 3 July 2005 to save the life of a surfer at Tolcarne Bay in Cornwall. He had severe head injuries from having been repeatedly washed onto the rocks. Lifeguard Richie Mullin dived...
A Boat (3)
Newhaven, Sussex - At 5.47 p.m. on 24th November, 1966, a report came from Roedean School that cries for help had been heard from just off the cliffs.
The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launchedat 5.55. It was three hours...
The Armed Patrol Yacht Boyne Water
FEBRUARY 29TH. - PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 2.45 P.M. the armed patrol yacht Boyne Water, which was anchored in St. Tudwalls Roads, signalled for a doctor, and Dr. Lloyd Hughes, of Abersoch, asked the life-boat to take...
Cruiser and Crete Avon (1)
Penlee, and The Lizard, Cornwall.—At 9.40 on the night of the 1st of March, 1956, the St. Just coastguard rang up the Penlee life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Crete Avon, of London, a vessel of 4,100 tons, had been in tow of the...
The Ramsey Island Boat
St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 4th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fire had been observed on Ramsey Island. The honorary secre- tary took no immediate action because in the...
Flamingo, of Stavanger (1)
Longhope, Orkneys, and Wick, Caithness-shire - At 11.27 a.m. on 26th January, 1967, it was learned that a vessel was transmitting a Mayday call off Pentland Skerries. The Longhope life-boat T.G.B. was launched at 11.45 in a strong east by...
Peter Race
Coxswain Teesmouth Tyne class lifeboat Bronze medal 26 August 1989 A NNW Force 7 was blowing on to rocks underasheer cliff when Coxswain Race took the Relief Tyne class lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher in to heavy breaking seas to rescue the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Transporting Carriage. (With Tipping's Wheelplates.)
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
Category: Articles
Kirawan
Margate, Kent.—At 7.3 on the even- ing of the 18th of August, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a small yacht was on Red Sands. At 7.15 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No. XI, was launched. The sea was rough, with a fresh...