LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Mechanical Digger
Driver saved from sinking digger Helensburgh - Scotland South Division Helensburgh's Atlantic 21 carried out an unusual rescue on 29 May 1989 when a survivor was safely landed from a mechanical digger which had become bogged down with a...
The Destroyer H.M.S. Walrus
Teesmouth, and Scarborough, Yorkshire.
—At 4.20 P.M. on the 12th February, 1938, a request was received from the coastguard at Whitby for the motor life-boa.t J. W. Archer, as the destroyer H.M.S. Walrus had broken from her...
A Yacht
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 6.25 on the evening of the 10th of October, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht with three young men on board was missing. At 6.40 the life-boat Lady Scott (Civil Service No. 4)...
The Tacht Bari
D class inflatable saves two from lee shore in near gale Helmsman Alan Attrill of Bembridge inshore lifeboat has been accorded the RNLFs Thanks on Vellum following the rescue last August of three people from a yacht aground on Bembridge...
King Fisher
FISHING VESSEL TOWED TO HARBOUR Blyth, Northumberland. At 10.51 on the night of the 20th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small fishing vessel had fired a distress signal one mile east of St. Mary's...
Foxfield
INJURED IN EXPLOSION Dover, Kent. At 2.8 p.m. on 3rd February, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Foxfield had reported an explosion on board and needed the services of a doctor, life-boat and a tug....
Model Effort:
Model effort: this half size replica of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston 44ft Waveney lifeboat Barham took eight months and several hundred man hours to complete and will be used to raise funds for the RNLI by being rented out to fetes and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sailboard
Sailboard out in force 8 MICHAEL TIGHE, a crew member of Sunderland's 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat, was near the lifeboathouse onthe afternoon of Sunday November 4, 1984, when he was told that a board sailor was in trouble near...
A Ship’s Boat (4)
SEPTEMBER 22ND. - HELVICK HEAD, CO. WATERFORD. A ship’s boat had been reported adrift, but it could not be found, and it was learned from boatmen, who had seen the drifting boat some hours earlier, that there was no one on board. - Rewards,...
An Aeroplane (6)
FEBRUARY 12TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
At 5.45 A.M. information was received that a British aeroplane, some twenty miles due east, was making for Wick.
A few minutes later it was reported that she was down...