LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coasteering calamity
19 July: St Davids, Wales A coasteering trip nearly ended in disaster when a 12-year-old girl seriously injured her neck near Porthclais Harbour. The inshore lifeboat crew arrived on scene at noon and gave first...
Category: Articles
A Motor Fishing Boat (1)
Fleetwood, and Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire.—4th October, 1939. A motor fishing boat, with two on board, was long overdue. A strong wind was blowing, and the sea was rough. Both life-boats searched all night, but found nothing, and it was...
A Motor Fishing Boat (2)
Fleetwood, and Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire.—4th October, 1939. A motor fishing boat, with two on board, was long overdue. A strong wind was blowing, and the sea was rough. Both life-boats searched all night, but found nothing, and it was...
Obituaries
It is with regret that we report the following deaths: Noel Smart DL - Council member Harry Mounsey - Life vice president Owen (Bunge)Taylor- Salcombe ex-coxswain LB Charles - Northampton branch president F Barnett - Wisbeach branch...
Category: Obituaries
A Motor Fishing Boat (4)
OCT . 4TH . - FLEETWOOD , A N D LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. A motor fishing boat, with two on board, was, long overdue. A strong wind was blowing, and the sea was rough. Both life-boats searched all night, but found nothing, and it was...
Braced for Action: Lt Alan Tate Strapped In and Ready for the Next Wave
Braced For Action: Lt Alan Tate Strapped In and Ready For The Next Wave. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services from Page 46
from page 46 yacht at 2006 and a lifeboatman was put on board. Six of the passengers were transferred to the lifeboat and the yacht taken in tow to Weymouth where the six were taken to hospital for a medical check.
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Category: Photographs
Hartley, of Southampton,
On the 24th of September, at 11 P.M., the brig Hartley, of Southampton, went on shore on the south end of the Goodwin sands, the wind blowing a strong gale from the S.W. at the time. At 1-40 A. si. alarm guns and rockets were observed on...
Past and Present
40 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, April 1949 issue As the last of the sailing life-boats was replaced by a motor life-boat on the 12th oJDecember, 1948, the term motor life-boat will no longer be used. "Life-boat" will...
Category: Articles
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—-At 10.20 P.M. on the 1st June the coastguard saw a flare at sea about four miles out. The life-boat was off service for survey and a motor boat manned by two men put out and searched. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing,...
Category: Services