LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Naive, Salamander and Abigail
GALE SPRINGS UP DURING OCEAN RACE Bridlington, Yorkshire. At eight o'clock on the morning of the 22nd June, 1962, the Royal Yorkshire Yacht Club's Outer Dowsing ocean race started with about sixteen yachts taking part. By three o'...
Getting the Reserve Life-Boat Grace Darling Launched In May, 1970,
Getting the reserve life-boat Grace Darling launched in May, 1970, when she was taken by a Bridlington crew from Flamborough to Bridlington.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Galway Bay. On the evening of the 21st of June, 1960, the island medical officer asked if the life-boat would take a sick child to Rossaveal on the main- land, where an ambulance was waiting to drive the child to hospital. As there was no...
Naming Ceremony at North Sunderland
THE Duchess of Northumberland, C.B.E., a vice-patron of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild and president of the Alnwick Guild, named a new motor life-boat at North Sunderland on 5th September. The boat is of the 35 feet 6 inches light Liverpool...
Category: Articles
Ceremonies
The weather forecast promised heavy rain and strong winds - and how accurate it was! The guests assembled at the naming ceremony of the Trent class lifeboat Esme Anderson at Ramsgate on 25 October 1994 braced themselves for all that the...
Category: Inaugurations
The Grace Darling Memorial In Bamburgh Churchyard
Laying wreaths, on September 7th, I938. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cornish lifeboatman rescues surfer - in Sri Lanka
When lifeboat volunteer Duncan Wallace headed off on his Winter honeymoon, he left his crew pager behind – but his lifesaving skills were still called upon 5,000 miles from home.
Duncan (pictured), a Newquay lifeboat crew...
Category: Articles
Tsunami
141 hour service in severe gale A MESSAGE FROM THE YACHT Coronade to the Sunk Pilot Cutter, saying that a red flare had been sighted southward, in the direction of the Long Sand, was intercepted by Walton Coastguard at 1621 on Sunday,...
Stilalisanin
Cromer, Norfolk - At 7.25 p.m. on 30th August, 1968, an IRB crew member saw a small yacht dragging towards the shore. The IRB was launched at 7.28 in a light easterly breeze and a moderate swell. Itwas just after low water. She found the...
Wigeon
Adrift OBAN COASTGUARD picked up a distress call in the early hours of Tuesday June 14 from the 20ft yacht Wigeon with an elderly couple on board. Wigeon had broken adrift from a mooring in Craignure Bay, Isle of Mull, her outboard engine...