LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Anna Gazina
On the 6th March the Life-boat Elizabeth Moore Garden was successful in saving 3 men from the Dutch galliot Anna, dazma, wrecked near the entrance to the harbour. The seas were making a clean breach over this vessel when boarded by the...
Ilfracombe Life-Boatmen
At the naming ceremony of the Rosabella.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
After Two Bombs
The wreckage of the boathouse in April, 1941, and underneath it the wreckage of the life-boat John Pyemont, which had replaced the Henry Frederick Swan in October, 1939. The building behind the wreckage is the old watchhouse.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Six Days Aboard Welsh Life-Boats
FROM the 22nd to the 29th of June, 1960, the B.B.C. broadcast each evening a half-hour programme in the Welsh Home Service. The composite title of the series was Over the Waves, the narrator being Mr. Wynford Vaughan- Thomas. The six items...
Category: Articles
A Yacht (8)
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 2.8 p.m.
on 26th August, 1965, a yacht was reported to have capsized off Westcliffe swimming pool. At 2.9 the IRB launched in a gentle to moderate south-westerly breeze and rough sea. She came up...
Lifeboat Services
INFLATABLE STEPS IN TO TAKE OVER TOW Heavy seas and poor conditions as D class saves three A service by Port Talbot's D class inshore lifeboat in difficult conditions has led to the award of the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on...
Category: Services
Past and Present
25 Years Ago The following article appeared in the December, 1962, issue of THE LIFEBOAT: First Rescue Ever From a Hovercraft ON the 17th September, 1962, a service of a unique kind was carried out when for the first time a rescue was...
Category: Articles
Storm Force Feature
Did you know that there are now just over 20,000 members of Storm Force, the RNLI's membership club for young people? As well as getting a pack full of all sons of goodies and an official membership card, Storm Force members also receive...
Category: Articles
Mary of Hull
On the 21st November, the smack Mary, of Hull, was stranded during hazy weather, about a mile and a quarter south of Withernsea. The crew of 5 men of the distressed vessel were anxious for the aid of the life-boat, as they felt they were in...
Kurt Arlt and Petrel (1)
Margate, Kent, and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.36 on the morning of the 25th of December, 1957, the coast- guard told the honorary secretary that a collision had occurred near the south- east Girdler buoy between the motor vessel Kurt Arlt,...