LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ceremonies
Anstruther - Mersey class Kingdom of Fife The picturesque Fife harbour of Anstruther basked in glorious sunshine on 29 May 1992 for the launch of the station's new lifeboat Kingdom of Fife by HRH The Duchess of...
Category: Inaugurations
A Yacht (5)
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At 11.29 a.m. on 29th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground on the West Barrow sands. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched at 11.45 in a gentlewesterly breeze...
Johan
DUNBAR. — At about half-past six o'clock on the morning of the llth March the Coastguards observed a small open boat in a perilous position, it being impossible for her to succeed in reaching the harbour owing to the rough state of the...
A Fishing Boat
PETERHEAD.—On the 13th April the Life-boat George Pickard was launched at 2.20 P.M. to the assistance of a fishing boat which was in danger, her mast having been carried away in a whole gale from S.E. and a heavy sea. Other boats, however,...
A Whitley Bombing Aeroplane (1)
DECEMBER 9TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL, CLOVELLY, AND APPLEDORE, DEVON. On the afternoon of the 9th December Padstow No. 1 motor life-boat put out to the help of a Whitley bombing aeroplane which had been reported down in the...
A Fishing Vessel
Dover, Kent.—At 10.35 in the morn- ing of the 15th of March, 1950, the signal station at the eastern arm of Dover Harbour reported a small motor boat drifting about a mile and a half off Dover, with her crew of two waving for help. At 10.50...
Letters
Lottery—win and share This morning I had numerous bills in the first post and was wondering how to pay them when I opened your letter of July 21 notifying me of my tremendous luck in winning £1,000 in the RNLI national lottery. I thank...
Category: Correspondence
Cap Lizard
Torbay, Devon. At 1.20 a.m. on 2ist December, 1965, the coastguard reported that a red rocket had been seen in a position five to six miles off Dartmouth in the area of Start Bay.
The life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent...
Moonbeam
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—On the 15th September a party of three men and two women left Fleetwood in the motor yacht Moonbeam, of Fleetwood. Engine trouble developed, and the Moonbeam ran ashore on the North Lighthouse bank at the entrance to...
Rinda, of Oslo
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 9.5 on the morning of the 17th of December, 1952, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that a man had fallen over- board from the tanker Rinda, of Oslo, off Rock Ferry, and at 9.30 the life-boat Norman B. Corlett...