LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Windy Old Weather
Newcastle, County Down, in a Force 9 to 10 southeasterly as the station's Oakley class lifeboat Jane Hay surfs into the harbour entrance at a speed considerably above that which her designer intended.
The photograph was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tribute to Thurso Heroes
The people of Caithness paid tribute to the Thurso lifeboat crew at a civic reception in January in the Pentland hotel, Thurso.
Coxswain Farquhar and his crew were honoured for saving the skipper of the burning chemical... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Making a Splash.
Newbiggin's tractor " illustrates what waterproof really means while recovering the station's Atlantic 21! The lifeboat had been launched on 25 January when gale „ force winds caught | the local fishing fleet at sea in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fishing Boat (7)
DECEMBER 22ND. - NEWBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
A small fishing boat capsized while attempting to cross the bar at the river mouth, but her crew of three were lost before the life-boat could reach them.- Rewards, £7 19s..<...
An Aeroplane (4)
JANUARY 25TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. Owing to bad weather conditions the life-boat put in at Great Yarmouth, and returned to her station on the 27th. -...
(Right) a Model of the New Lifeboat House
(right) A model of the new lifeboat house and slipway at the end of Cromer pier - a project which will be the largest ever undertaken by the RNLI. Work commences shortly and should take some 15 to 18 months to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The French Naval Patrol Boat La Bastiase
JUNE 22ND. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
The French naval patrol boat La Bastiase had blown up and sunk in a few minutes, but the sixteen survivors of her crew were rescued by the examination vessel at the Tees. - Rewards, £4...
The Margaret
BRANCASTER, NORFOLK.—At 3 P.M. on the 8th March, a vessel was seen striking on the Flats, and showing signals of distress.
The crew of the Lily Bird Lifeboat mustered, launched their boat as soon as possible, and proceeded...
Argus
Barrow, Lancashire.—At eight o'clock on the morning of the 17th of Decem- ber, 1957, the Walney coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man had been seriously injured on board the pilot boat Argus, of Barrow. From a later message...
Patricia Joan
Dungeness, Kent. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 4th of February, 1958, the wife of a local fisherman told the second coxswain that she had heard on the trawler wave-band on her radio that the motor vessel Clarity and the fishing...