LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Dowsing Lightvessel
MEMBER OF LIGHTVESSEL'S CREW BROUGHT ASHORE Humber, Yorkshire. At 4.43 on the morning of the 20th May, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the master of the Dowsing lightvessel had asked if the life-boat would...
Sylvia
Longhope, Orkneys. — Early on the morning of the 31st of January, 1957, the fishing yawl Sylvia, of Kirkwall, put out for lobster fishing. Before she was due to return a strong gale blew up, and as it was known that it would be extremely...
Kylequeen
Angle, Pembrokeshire. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 24th October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the coaster Kylequeen was in difficulties seven miles south-west of St. Anne's...
Evening Star
Arbroath, Angus - At 10.45 a.m. on r 8th October, 1966, concern was felt for the motor fishing vessel Evening Star which was still at sea. The weather conditions were deteriorating rapidly. At 2.10 p.m. it was decided to launch the life-boat...
Pillaging Will Be Delayed Slightly
It is not often that a lifeboat tows a Viking longship, but it does happen! Moelfre's Tyne class lifeboat Robert and Violet is pictured doing just this on 15 July 1990 after receiving a call from the replica Longship Dyflin, based in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Ocean Youth Club's 70Ft Training Vessel Francis Drake
Helping hand for youngsters The Ocean Youth Club's 70ft training vessel Francis Drake is pictured being given a helping hand by Ramsey's Oakley James Ball Ritchie on 8 August, 1988.
The yacht's auxiliary engine... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Patrol Boat Joseph
NOVEMBER 22ND. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. At 7.5 in the evening the naval authorities asked for the services of the lifeboat for a patrol boat which was in difficulties near the mouth of the harbour and the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott...
The Eight Robsons
The eight members of the family at present in the crew of the North Sunderland life-boat.
In the centre Coxswain James Robson. An article on the work of four generations of lifeboat Robsons appeared in the last number of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sailing Dinghy
Lowestoft, Suffolk-At 10.59 a.m.
on llth May, 1968, the honorary secretary learnt that a sailing dinghy with two people on board was being carried away by the ebb tide and appeared to be out of control. The life-boat...
Osprey
TOWED TO LOWESTOFT Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 11.30 a.m. on 24th August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a converted life-boat, Osprey, was burning red flares about one mile east-north-east of the lookout.