LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (3)
MCH. 22ND. - EXMOUTH, DEVON. An aeroplane had come down in the sea, but her crew were saved by a small boat from the shore.-Rewards, £26 15s. (See “ Services by Shore-boats,” Sidmouth, page 93.).
The S.S. Mango
SELSEY, SUSSEX, and BEAIBRIDOE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The Selsey Motor Life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched in a S.S.W. gale with a rough sea at 3 A.M. on the 10th January in response to red flares from a position about six miles ...
Fishing Cobles (1)
SEVEN AT SEA Whitby, Yorkshire. At 1.30 p.m. on 2oth November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that seven fishing cobles were at sea in rapidly deteriorating weather. There was a strong gale from the north with a rough...
Take a tour of RNLI College
See for yourself how our crews and lifeguards are trained and prepped to save lives at sea with a behind-the-scenes tour of RNLI College.
College discovery tours are run at 11am and 2.30pm from Monday–Thursday, at 11am and...
Category: Articles
SWANAGE CENTENARY
Swanage centenary celebrations will take place on Sunday, July 27, at 1530 at Stone Quay, Swanage. If wet the service will be held in the Parish Church at 1830..
Category: Articles
An Air-Sea Rescue launch
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 29th of September, 1960, the Royal Air Force detachment at Tenby requested the use of the life- boat Henry Comber Brown to tow in one of their air-sea rescue launches, which had broken...
Band Spirit
Band spirit Tynemouth lifeboat band, otherwise known as Lenny Park and the Pagers, have been gigging regularly to raise cash for lifeboat coffers.
To date the band has helped Supporters Ashore of the Lifeboat at Tynemouth... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Violet Stephenson
Boulmer, Northumberland. At 8.20 a.m. on 25th September, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that some of the local fishing cobles were still at sea in deteriorating weather conditions and might need assistance to return to the...
Sultan & Pet
About 3.30 P.M. on the 6th March a ketch was seen trying to beat up for Tenby Roads, but when about three-and-a-half miles off, her canvas was all blown away.
There was a whole N.N.W. gale at the time and the sea was very...
Lord Coke, of Middlesborough
On the morn- ing of the 15th January, a man ran from Dunwich to Southwold to the house of the coxswain of the life-boat of the National Institution, and informed him that a boat was driving down from Dunwich with men in her, and was fast...