LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Anstruther, Fife - At 4.36 p.m. on i6th March, 1967, a message was received that the wife of one of the light-keepers on May Island required urgent medical attention. The life-boat The Doctors launched at 4.50 with a doctor on...
Malanie, of Gosport
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - At 7.48 p.m. on 25th June, 1967, a yacht was reported in difficulties about one mile west of Hurst Castle. The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe slipped her moorings at 8.1 in a strong south south easterly breeze...
Rapparee
Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork - At 8.40 p.m. on 2ist June, 1967, it was learned that the motor launch Rapparee had developed engine trouble and could not be contacted. The life-boat Sir Arthur Rose slipped her moorings at 8.50 in a fresh breeze...
A Dinghy (8)
At 2.3 p.m. on i6th July, 1967, a visitor informed the honorary secretary that a small boy was adrift in a rubber dinghy. The life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall was launched at 2.25 in a gentle breeze and a slight sea. The tide was flooding....
Above Homeward Bound
Above. Homeward bound... Coxswain Eric Ward eases the Mersey under Poole bridge for the last time.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Captured In Oils:
Captured in oils: the most recent of the celebrated marine artist, David Cobb's lifeboat paintings is this impression of a rescue carried out by Troon lifeboat on September 12, 1980. Her coxswain, Ian Johnson, was awarded the silver...
Category: Drawings
Gala Performance
Gala performance Tweety Pie (alias Jonathan Kinney) flies through the air with the greatest of ease!. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Below Left) Time for a Break
(below left) Time for a break - summoned by the foghorn the Portacabin soon fills up…. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Arun
The Arun class was the RNLI's first UK-designed 'fast' lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Port Isaac,
Port Isaac, the ground floor of the Slipway Hotel is returned to its earlier use. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs