LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cover Picture
by Portsmouth Publishing and Printing Calshot's Brede class lifeboat Foresters Future holds station alongside the yacht Software Mistress in the Solent while the lifeboat crew prepare to take off an injured crew member.
Category: Photographs
Cygnet
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 8.40 oil the evening of the 10th of July, 1950, a report was received that the sailing dinghy Cygnet was in a dangerous position, with two people on board waving for help. Sixteen minutes later the life-boat The Cuttle...
Bernard Byrne Comes of a Traditional Lifeboat Family and Like His Uncle Philip In Former Years Is Coxswain of Arranmore Lifeboat
Bernard Byrne comes of a traditional lifeboat family and, like his uncle, Philip, in former years, is coxswain of Arranmore lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Twilight
HELICOPTER-LIFE-BOAT SEARCH FOR MISSING MAN Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 2.30 p.m.
on Wednesday the 10th of July, 1963, the life-boat coxswain reported that a man who had put off for a fishing trip off Bembridge in the...
St. Ives
ST. IVES, CORNWALL On the 24th October, 1945, the St. Ives life-boat rescued two persons from the ketch Minnie Flossie, of Bideford.
COXSWAIN WILLIAM PETERS was awarded the silver medal..
Category: Medals
H.M. Balloon Drifter Marcia
SEPTEMBER 7TH. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At about 11.30 at night the coastguard asked the life-boat to go to the help of a balloon drifter which was ashore in Blyth Bay about half a mile S.S.W. of Blyth piers. The night was...
Terry George, Coxswain/ Mechanic of the Sennen Cove
Terry George, Coxswain/ Mechanic Of The Sennen Cove. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ferry Saint Malo (1)
Two lifeboats on service as high speed passenger ferry runs on to rocksBoth of Jersey's lifeboats, St Heller's Tyne class Alexander Coutanche and St Catherine's Atlantic rigid inflatable Jessie Eliza, were involved in a service...
None (2)
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 7.20 on the morning of the 14th of December, 1956, the St. John Ambulance Area Commissioner reported that an urgent call had been received from a doctor at Sark informing him of a maternity case requiring...
Brawlass
Barrow, Lancashire. At 8.38 on the evening of the 8th of November, 1957, the Walney coastguard reported seeing red flares about three miles west-north- west of the look-out. The life-boat Herbert Leigh was launched at 8.55 in a calm sea with...