LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Aeolian
StornowSy, Outer Hebrides - At 12.40 p.m. on 28th September, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary'that a yacht, which was anchored in Loch Seaforth, had been driven ashore on the south west corner of Seaforth island. At 1...
French Life-Boat Returns
In April, less than a month before the war ended, a French lifeboat which had served on the British coast for nearly four years, was returned to the French Service. She was the "Jean Charcot" of lie Molene, on the coast of Brittany...
Category: Articles
United States Life-Saving Service
THE United States Government have recently issued their report of their Life- Saving Service for the year ended the 30th June, 1888. From it we learn that at the close of the fiscal year in question there were 222 life-saving stations, 170...
Category: Articles
Miss Hunt
HOLYHEAD.—Signals of distress being seen in the bay, the No. 1 Life-boat Thomas Fielden was launched at 9.10 P.M.
on the 25th January, while a strong gale from N.E. was blowing with severe squalls, a heavy sea, and snow....
Pentille
TRAWLER TOWED AFTER COLLISION WITH SUBMARINE Plymouth, Devon. At 9.29 on the morning of the 14th December, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a trawler was sinking two miles west of Rame Head, and at 9.43 the life-boat...
A Cabin Cruiser
Tynemouth, Northumberland.—-At 6.25 in the morning of the 8th of August, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a cabin cruiser, with three aboard, was in distress to the east of Tyne North Pier Light. When the life- boat crew assembled, a...
Will Everard (1)
Dungeness, Kent.—At 10.45 on the morning of the 5th of December, 1955, a man reported that the barge Will Everard, of London, which had a crew of four, had run ashore near Galloways.
At 11.25 the life-boat Charles Cooper...
Launches
istings ABERDEEN ON-1248(17-24):Oct3 D-536:Oa3 ABERDOVEY B-754:Oc5 B-75ft Sep 12; Nov 28 ABERYSTWYTH B-70*Sepl2.15.20;Nov8 ACHILL ISLAND ON-1240(14-28):Sep30; Oct 12,24.25 AITH ON-1232(17-14):Sep20 ALDE8URCH ON-1184(12-2S)Dec 16 D-52ft Nov...
Category: Services
Poole Headquarters July 25 1986:
Poole headquarters, July 25, 1986: When Stephen Willoughby died tragically young, his family decided they would buy a lifeboat in his memory. The relief 16ft D class lifeboat Stephen Willoughby was therefore officially handed over and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
RNLI Exhibition at Southend's New Library
At the kind invitation of Leslie Helliwell, chief librarian of Southendon- Sea, the local RNLI branch arranged a most successful '150 years of lifeboat history' exhibition in the borough's magnificent new central library. It was...
Category: Articles