LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Speed Boat (2)
Mudeford, Hampshire. At 1.20 p.m.
on i8th April, 1965, a member of the crew of the inshore rescue boat saw a speedboat with her crew of two in the water after she had been swamped at die harbour entrance. At 1.25 the IRB...
Argo Delos
On the 22nd of October, 1960, the Portrush life-boat rescued fourteen men from the Greek vessel Argo Delos. For this service, a full account of which appears on page 3, Coxswain Samuel Cunningham was awarded the silver medal for gallantry,...
Katie
During a moderate S.W. gale on the 13th December, the schooner Katie, of Car- narvon, stranded to thenorthof Braunton Lighthouse and made signals of distress.
In response, the No. 1 Life-boat Jane Hannah MacDonald was...
A Boat
Ramsgate, Kent.—On the evening of the 16th May, the coastguard telephoned that the police had reported two men cut off by the tide in Pegwell bay. A gentle east breeze was blowing, and the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat City of Bradford...
Two Niner
Six rescued despite Atlantic steering fault Outstanding seamanship and determination during a five-hour service has earned David Wells, helmsman of Clacton's Atlantic 21 lifeboat, the RNLI's Bronze Medal. Crew member Terence...
Liverbirds' Past and Present Polly James (I) and Elizabeth Estensen Took Turn to Draw the Seventh Rnli Lotten Winners
'Liverbirds' past and present, Polly James (I.) and Elizabeth Estensen. took turn to draw the seventh RNLI lotten winners.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dunmore East: Silver Medallist Coxswain Stephen Whittle and His Crew Aboard the New 44' Waveney Class Lifeboat St.Patrick
Dunmore East: Silver medallist Coxswain Stephen Whittle and his crew aboard the new 44' Waveney class lifeboat St Patrick.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Brita, a Shetland Type Motor Boat, and Angling Boat Ondermining
Triple call-out NOVEMBER 1, 1986 proved to be a cold day, with a partly overcast sky and anorth-westerly wind, force 5 to 6 blowing along the Essex coast.
At 1107 Thames coastguard alerted the deputy launching authority of...
Isabella
SKERRIES.—About 3 P.M. on the 16th April, the schooner Isabella, of Portmadoc, bound from London to Dundalk, was observed to part from her anchors and drive towards the rocks. A strong gale from the E.S.E. was blowing, and a heavy sea was...