LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sky Lark and Fisher Lassie
During the night of the 31st July the Coastguard at Knab saw flares being burnt by a vessel in the South entrance. She was evidently drifting seaward. The Life-boat Station was warned, and the Motor Life-boat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland was...
Resolute
On the 21st September the fishing-boat Resolute, of Leith, whilst bound from Methil to Kincardine for fishing, was driven to sea by the force of the gale, and took refuge in St. Andrews Bay. On the 28th September, when lying there, she was...
Our courageous community
It was the last Annual General Meeting for our Chairman, but the event was also a day of firsts as RNLI supporters and staff came together at a new venue
On 19 May, after 12 years at the Barbican in London, the AGM came...
Category: Articles
Monty's Marine life
Diver, journalist and DIY convert Monty Halls tells Rory Stamp why he chose the simple life – and why he will always be grateful to the RNLI
When I step into Monty’s small Bristol office, I’m confronted with a toothy grin...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats (1)
BOULMER, CULLERCOATS, NORTH SUNDERLAND, SCARBOROUGH, and TYNEMOUTH.— On the 7th January a sudden gale sprung up accompanied by a high sea, and between 9.30 A.M. and 4.45 P.M. five Lifeboats —the Meliscent, stationed at Boulmer, the...
Book Corner
• Visitors to Clovelly usually see this famous Devon coastal village in a setting of a calm sea.
Conditions are not always as idyllic as this, however. Evidence of this is given in the excellent Short History of the...
Category: Articles
Canoes
Lymington's Atlantic 21 was called out to the rescue of five Sea Scouts and two Scout Leaders when their canoes got into difficulties in very rough conditions on the Solent on 22 August 1992. Although photographs from the air always...
A Yacht
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.54 on the morning of the 9th of July, 1960, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized off Brooklands Jaywick and that her crew were clinging to the keel. The life- boat Sir Godfrey...
Jessie
POOLE, DOHSET.—While a fresh wind was blowing from E.S.E. on the 5th February, a telephone message was received from the coastguard at Sandbanks stating that a vessel was on the Hook Sand and burning flares. The Lifeboat City Masonic Club...
Lymington's Atlantic 21
Lymington's Atlantic 21 was called out to the rescue of five Sea Scouts and two Scout Leaders when their canoes got into difficulties in very rough conditions on the Solent on 22 August 1992. Although photographs from the air always... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs