LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Irma Alice
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 2.16 on the afternoon of the 26th of September, 1954, the Gorleston coastguard rang up to say that a message had been received from the Humber radio station that the trawler Irma Alice,...
Corah
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. — About eleven o'clock on the night of the 8th of August, 1956, it was reported that the fishing boat Corah, with five people on board, was overdue. The life-boat Guy and Clare Hunter was launched at 11.50...
Alison Mary
ESCORT FOR BOAT WITH CREW MEMBER ABOARD St. Abbs, Berwickshire. On the morning of the 26th June, 1962, anxiety was felt for the safety of the local fishing boat Alison Mary, which was long overdue from fishing. There was a fresh northerly...
Laura
THORPENESS.—At 1.30 A.M. on the 20th May, the Ipswich Life-boat was launched to the assistance of the ketch Laura, of Harwich, bound from the north for Netley, Southampton, with coal, whichwas disabled during rough weather and a very heavy...
Working With a Helicopter
Working with a helicopter demands precision, and overcoming the racket and spray from the rotor's downwash. Plugged in to the lifeboat's intercom Charlie Hodson gives the chopper the green flag to come in (left), and the winchman... - View image in PDF
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Fishing Cobles
CULLERCOATS.—A gale of wind having sprung up on the morning of the 1st April, and three of the cobles engaged in the salmon fishing being in danger of being swamped by the heavy seas in taking the bar, the Life-boat Palmerston was launched...
John Soyle
On the 8th September the schooner John Soyle, of Chester, was reported to haye sank on Cartmell Wharf, Morecambe Bay, during a strong W.N.W, gale and a heavy sea. At 11.45 A.M. the William Krkett Life-boat went to her assistance, and found...
A Dinghy (5)
Largs, Ayrshire. At 10.5 p.m. on July, 1965, the police reported that a small dinghy with three persons on board was in difficulties a mile and a half south-west of the South Bay. At 10.17 the IRB launched in a strong easterly breeze and...
R.N.L.I. Sends Irbs to Pakistan Disaster
It took the R.N.L.I, just 36 hours to find 20 inshore rescue boats with engines and spares for an airlift from Stansted, Essex, to Dacca to aid victims of the flood disaster in East Pakistan. The two volunteers were Lieutenant David Stogdon... - View image in PDF
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Life-boat 70-002 at the Mumbles - At 4.15 p.m. on 23rd April, 1967, while rounding Mumbles Head on exercise, the coxswain of the life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie noticed four people cut off by the tide on Lighthouse Island. There was a light...