LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
On Passage
The new Barmouth life-boat, The Chieftain, off St. David's Head, on her way to her station from the building yard at Cowes, with the Porthdinllaen life-boat, in February, 1949.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dineiddwg
Aberdeen. At 11.50 p.m. on 2nd April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Dineiddwg of Aberdeen had grounded at Girdleness in thick fog. The life-boat Ramsay-Dyce proceeded at 12.20 a.m. in a light...
A Bodyboard
Surfer Neil Futton was waiting in the water for the next wave to ride and, looking around, noticed a bodyboard floating in the water.
He paddled over and found a man who had stopped breathing. He started to attempt...
Queen Alexandra
Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 1.45 on the morning of the 28th of April, 1951, the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that the steam trawler Queen Alexandra, of Fleetwood, with a crew of twelve, had wirelessed that she was aground in the Sound of...
Mtoto
Three rescued in high winds... and mud When Whitstable's Atlantic was called out to rescue two adults and an eightyear- old from a 24ft yacht the crew found themselves dealing not only with breaking seas and Force 6-7 winds but also...
Thurne
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 17th of September, 1952, the Foreland coast- guard telephoned that a sailing yacht was in distress two miles south-east of the look-out hut, near the Princessa Buoy. Ten...
Shamrock
At 5 A.M. on the 26th August the Coxswain of the Life-boat Mayheie Medwin received in- formation that there were no tidings of a small fishing yawl, the Shamrock, of Peel, which left Harbour at 10.30 A.M.
the previous day....
Jersey Channel Islands November 17 1987:
JF.RSKY, Channel Islands, November 17, 1987: Helmsman Tony Able, on board St Catharine's C class inflatable lifeboat, towing home the States Fire Service Zodiac inflatable rescue craft which had become swamped and suffered engine failure... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gladys
At 12.15 P.M.
on the 4th August the smack Gladys, of Lowestoft, was observed on the Bar- ber Sands, and the No. 2 Life-boat, Nancy Lucy was launched to assist her.
The wind was blowing strongly from the...
Richard Dimbleby
Richard Dimbleby who died on the 22nd December, 1965 at the age of 52 was an active supporter and friend of the life-boat service. To a man, such as he was, of great personal courage and deep sincerity and with a passionate interest in...
Category: Obituaries