LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ark
TWO RESCUED FROM SAILING DINGHY New Quay, Cardiganshire. At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 14th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized off Llanina reef and that her crew of two were unable to...
Annual Awards 1980
The Maud Smith Award for the most outstanding act of lifesaving during 1980 has been made to Coxswain/ Mechanic Malcolm Macdonald of Stornoway for the rescue of 29 men from the trawler Junella on September 29. In a strong southerly gale and...
Category: Awards
Albas (1)
High and dry on the Goodwins RAMSGATE HONORARY SECRETARY Was informed by Dover Straits Coastguard at 2025 on Thursday, September 11, 1975, that, following a number of reports of red flares sighted over the Goodwin Sands, Walmer lifeboat had...
Margaret Ann
All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...
Life-Boat Up Thames
The paragraph headed 'Life-boat Up Thames' on page 149 of the July Journal referred, of course, to Kingston and Surbiton. It had been planned that those mentioned should be there, but in fact they were not, and the 'mystery...
Category: Branches
In the After Cabin of Each Lifeboat Sensitive Pens Kept a Ceaseless Scientific Chronicle
In the after cabin of each lifeboat sensitive pens kept a ceaseless scientific chronicle. . . .. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Charity Ending at Home. A Service By the Humber Motor Life-Boat
A Service by the Bomber Motor Life-boat.
"From the calamity of shipwreck, no one can say that he may at all times remain free, and whilst he is now providing only for the safety of others, a day may come which will...
Category: Services
Flumm 2
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.8 on the afternoon of the 3rd of June, 1956, the coastguard telephoned to say a small boat with two people on board was in difficulties near the Brooklands groyne, Jay wick. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was...
Petrel
BARMOUTH.—A small pleasure yacht, the Petrel, left Barmouth on the morning of the 27th July, with five gentlemen, lady, and two boatmen on board, for Aberystwyth, which was reached about 3.30 P.M., after a rough passage, however, part of the...
Happy Days
Margate, Kent.—At 8.6 in the morning of the 12th of August, 1948, information was received from S.S. Holdernene, through North Foreland Radio and the coastguard, that a motor launch was in need of help near the Elbow...