LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Boat (1)
Fishing boat capsized A TELEPHONE CALL was received by the honorary secretary of Penarth lifeboat station at 1311 on Friday September 18, 1981, from The Mumbles Coastguard requesting the launch of the lifeboat: a message had come on VHP...
Fishing Boats (2)
Arbroath, Angus.—Early on the'morn- ing of the llth of November, 1954, the local fishing fleet put out, but the sea became very rough. The boats made for harbour again, but were unable to enter because the tide was too...
Regina Mary at Looe
The naming of the D Class lifeboat took place during the town's Festival of the Sea. The threeday event is held every two years and has a strong RNLI flavour. As well as the naming ceremony, the Earl and Countess of Wessex visited the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Life-Boat Race In 1867
From a print in the possession of Mr. J. E. Hooper. Hon. Secretary of the Natural History Museum and Antiquarian Society of Penzance. The race was in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, between the Life-boats stationed at St. Ives,...
Category: Drawings
Venture and Kestrel
Dunbar, East Lothian. At four o'clock on the morning of the 30th of March, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the police had reported two small boats overdue which were on passage from Aberdeen to Port Seton. One...
Eight In a Row
Eight in a row Last year 33 members of Wallingford Rowing Club sculled their way down the Thames from Oxford to Wallingf ord to raise money, both for new equipment and for the RNLI. Later, as the picture shows, an 'eight' from the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sailboard (1)
Sail board in trouble AT 1553 on Wednesday, November 21, 1984, the honorary secretary of Aberystwyth lifeboat station was informed by Milford Haven coastguard that a board sailor was in trouble just outside the mouth of Aberystwyth...
Ernani , H.M.S. Holdfast and Steamer Premuda
JANUARY 16TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
At 7 P.M. a message was received from the Ramsgate coastguard that the Italian steamer Ernani had collided with the Brake Light-vessel, and that the light-vessel was in danger of sinking. At...
S.S. Castor
FEBRUARY 14TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At 7 P.M. information was received from the Humber naval authorities that a Norwegian vessel, about six and a half miles from Spurn, had sent out an SOS as she was leaking badly. The weather wascold,...
Harwich
Shortly after four in the morning of 8th December information was received from the Coastguard that a vessel was burning flares. Fifteen minutes later the Motor Life-boat John and Mary Meiklam of Gladswood was launched. A fresh S.W. by W....