LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Blinkbonny
Swanage, Dorset - At 11.7 p.m. on 5th November. 1966, it was reported that the yacht Blinkbonny was overdue on passage from Weymouth to Poole and had last been seen at 7.30 p.m. one mile and a half off Anvil Point. There was a strong north...
Edwin Distin
Edwin Distin The death occurred in October of ex- Coxswain Edwin Distin, aged 82, the last surviving member of the crew of the Salcombe, Devon, lifeboat disaster of 1916. He held the RNLI's silver and bronze medals. His son, Coxswain...
Category: Obituaries
A False Alarm
EARLY in the morning of 22nd August the Selsey Motor Life-boat was launched iu answer to signals from what appeared to be a vessel in distress off Bognor.
She cruised about for three hours, but could find no sign of any...
Category: Articles
Margrethe Bakke
Dover, and Dungeness, Kent.—At 10.58 on the morning of the 22nd of Feb- ruary, 1954, the S. ndgate coastguard rang up the Dover life-boat station to say the motor vessel Margrethe Bakke, of Haugesund, Norway, had collided with a French ship...
Margrethe Bakke (1)
Dover, and Dungeness, Kent.—At 10.58 on the morning of the 22nd of Feb- ruary, 1954, the S. ndgate coastguard rang up the Dover life-boat station to say the motor vessel Margrethe Bakke, of Haugesund, Norway, had collided with a French ship...
Nyon
St. Abbs, Berwickshire. At 7.57 on the evening of the 15th of November, 1958, the coxswain received a message that the motor vessel Nyon of Basle was ashore three and a half miles north- west of St. Abbs Head. At 8.15 the life-boat W. Ross...
Spreety (1)
Lifeboat and ILB AT 0813 ON WEDNESDAY August 17, 1977, HM Coastguard Aldeburgh requested the launch of Aldeburgh lifeboat to a yacht firing red flares about half a mile east of the lookout. Because of the difficulties of launching at low...
(Below) Clyde
(below) Clyde, 70-001, Charles H.
Barrett (Civil Service No 35): length overall 70ft; beam 18ft; draught 8ft 4in; displacement 85 tons; maximum speed, over 11 knots; range at full speed, 600 nautical miles. Charles... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Crew
li RNLI coxswains sail through new RYA course Four coxswains have achieved RYA motor cruising qualifications. The course forms part of competencebased training for volunteer and full-time lifeboat crews. The successful crew are coxswain Rod...
Category: Articles
Hoylake Coxswain's Bronze Medal.
Coxswain Herbert Jones, of Hoylake, and two other men have won bronze medals for rescuing two men whose dinghy was in grave danger in very heavy seas off West Kirby in the river Dee. They went out to the rescue in a dinghy knowing that if...
Category: Articles