LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane
On 14th January a man from Dinmor Quarry saw an aeroplane apparently nose-dive either on to Puffin Island or into the sea, and reported it to the Coastguard, who notified the Life-boat Station.
This was at 3.30 P.M. The...
An Aeroplane (15)
MAY 30TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 7.43 P.M. the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed approximately E.N.E. from Frinton battery, close inshore, and at 8.10 P.M. the motor life-boat E.M.E.D. was launched. A high westerly...
Dunluce
AUG. 11TH. - PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM.
At about 4 P.M. the second coxswain of the life-boat reported that the motor fishing boat Dunluce, of Portrush, with a crew of four on board, was in need of help off Curran...
Rose
A TOW IN A ROUGH SEA Girvan, Ayrshire.—About 5 o'clock in the evening of the 26th of November, 1947, a motor fishing boat was seen one mile to the westward, apparently broken down. On being signalled she replied that she did not need...
Killed on Active Service
IN "Obituary of the Years of War, 1939-1945," "in the last issue of The Life-boat, there should have appeared two other names, John Herbert Bolton and Thomas Valentine Bennett.
Mr. Bolton joined the staff of...
Category: Obituaries
Bronze for Lochinver coxswain
Remember our rescue story in Spring 2015, reporting how Lochinver and Thurso crews aided a fish carrier during a 13-hour rescue in a gale? Now the Lochinver Coxswain, David MacAskill (above right), is to be awarded an RNLI Bronze Medal for...
Category: Articles
Hare and Hounds Pub
Roll out the barrel! That is exactly what eight customers of the Hare and Hounds pub at Dore, near Sheffield did.
The eight, working in pairs, pushed a 36-gallon beer barrel filled with water from the pub to Whitby lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sundew
Holed yacht A YACHT ADRIFT in a strong southerly gale and in very large breaking seas two miles off the Wittering shore in Bracklesham Bay and drifting westwards was reported to the lifeboat authority of Hayling Island ILB station by HM...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Hastings, and Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 4.22 on the afternoon of the 13th of January, 1957, the Fairlight coast- guard telephoned that a sailing dinghy needed help four miles south of Bex- hill. At 4.37 the Hastings life-boat M.T.C. was...
Edith and Hilda
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the afternoon of the 7th April the coastguard reported that a sailing barge some miles S.W. of Clacton appeared to be in difficulties, with her mainsail carried away. A strong N.E. breeze was blowing, with a...