LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
British King
Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 2.50 p.m. on 24th July, 1966, during the sea cadets' regatta, the weather conditions deteriorated and on the advice of the lifeboat coxswain the organizers decided the event should be cancelled. The wind...
A Yacht (7)
Wicklow - At 11.25 P-m- on 25tn August, 1966, the coxswain was told that a man had fallen overboard from a yacht.
The life-boat J. W. Archer left her moorings at 11.50 in a gentle easterly breeze and a choppy sea. It was...
A Yacht
New Quay, Cardiganshire - At 4.49 p.m. on 3rd September, 1966, a message was received that a yacht was in distress and burning flares. At 5.5 the life-boat St. Albans was launched in a fresh south south westerly wind and a rough...
Evening Song
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 7.44 p.m. on 24th March, 1967, the look-out at Cemaes Bay reported a small boat making for Holyhead in a very rough sea. It was two hours before high water. The lifeboat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland, ontemporary duty...
Royal Humane Society Award
On 7th August, 1968, when the Ramsey, Isle of Man, life-boat Thomas Corbett was being launched for publicity purposes the tractor driver, Mr. W.
Collister, who was wearing his life-saving suit, was swept off the tractor...
Category: Awards
Peter Race
Coxswain Teesmouth Tyne class lifeboat Bronze medal 26 August 1989 A NNW Force 7 was blowing on to rocks underasheer cliff when Coxswain Race took the Relief Tyne class lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher in to heavy breaking seas to rescue the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Silver Quest (1)
Five lifeboats in long search for lost fishermen Newcastle, Co. Down's, Oakley class lifeboat Jane Hay and Portaferry's Atlantic 21 Blue Peter V took part in long searches for the two crewmen from a fishing boat Silver Quest which...
Barrow September 27 1986:
Barrow, September 27, 1986: from model lifeboats to the real thing! The model lifeboat rallies organised by Des Newton since 1979 helped provide the funds to pay for Barrow's new 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat, Modeller I. The handing... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Queen Adelaide Pub Putney Bridge Road London
Guess how much is in the bottle! For weeks customers at the Queen Adelaide puh. Putney Bridge Road, London, put their spare cash a large whisky bottle. On the evening of the 'smash' they were asked to hazard a guess as to how much it... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sailboard
Humane Society awards for crew members Hunstanton - East Division Two members of Hunstanton's lifeboat crew have received Royal Humane Society awards for rescuing a windsurfer - with the station's launching tractor.