LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy (2)
Dover, Kent. At 1.15 on the after- noon of the 22nd of April, 1959, the eastern arm signal station informed the honorary secretary that a small dinghy with an outboard motor was drifting half a mile south of the signal...
Pride of Ballinskelligs
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 5.38 in the evening on the 22nd of February, 1950, the coxswain saw a fishing boat drifting on to the rocks off Cromwell Point, clearly in need of prompt help. Seven minutes later the life-boat...
Happy Returns
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 8.21 on the morning of the 2nd of June, 1951, the coastguard passed on the news that a Trinity House vessel had, through Newhaven Radio, reported the East- bourne fishing vessel Happy Returns disabled by an engine...
Welsh Girl
TOW FOR VESSEL WITH TWENTY PASSENGERS Barmouth, Merionethshire. At six o'clock on the evening of the 2nd June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Welsh Girl, which had a crew of two and twenty...
Weymouth Ladies' Guild
Weymouth ladies' guild raised £700 for branch funds at its annual wine and cheese party in the Springfield Room at Devenish Brewery on April I . The Mayor of Weymouth and Portland, Mrs Joyce Litschi, presented an oil painting of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Typhoon
Beaumaris, Anglesey - At 7.30 p.m.
on 2nd July, 1967, it was learnt that a sloop was in difficulties about one mile east of Puffin Island. In the same area a cabin cruiser was also apparently in trouble. The life-boat Field...
Royal Humane Society Testimonial
The Royal Humane Society has awarded a testimonial on parchment to Mr.
William Dryden, motor mechanic of the Whitby life-boat, for his rescue on 5th May, 1965, of a three year old girl who had fallen into the lower...
Category: Awards
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 5 March 1996 show that during 1995: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 7,312 times (an average of more than 20 launches a day) 1,632 lives were saved (an average of more than 4 a day) Some 3...
Category: Articles
Southwold:
Southwold: The only way to christen an Atlantic 21 inflatable lifeboat is to take the cork out of the bottle. Senior Helmsman Roger Trigg performs the task after, on a wet Wednesday August 7, 1985, the station's new lifeboat was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Torbay's Arun class lifeboat Edward Bridges had to approach within inches of a cliff on 9 December 1988 to rescue a climber, who had fallen some 20ft into the sea at Berry Head.
The accident happened at a climb known as...