LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Yacht Raider
Torbay, Devon.—At 11.15 on the night of the 14th of June, 1952, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that a red flare had been seen between four and five miles east of Berry Head, and at 11.40 the life-boat George Shee left her moorings. The...
St. Ronaig
JUNE 11TH. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX. At 12.50 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel sinking and men on a raft drifting out to sea, east of Seaford. The weather was calm. At 1.5 P.M. the motor life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was launched and...
Our Need
AUGUST 24TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
At about 7.30 P.M . the fishing smack Our Need, of Lowestoft, owned by a salvage firm and bound light from Lowestoft to Oban, with a crew of four, ran aground on the rocks about half a...
A Boat
Anglers all at sea Three anglers in an ill-equipped 12ft open boat had a lucky escape at Penarth on 28 February 1989 when their anchor started dragging in a Force 7 wind and 8ft to 13ft seas and their outboard engine failed to...
Shoreham Life-Boat Lands Survivor from Cabin Cruiser
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Category: Photographs
(Right) a Salute from An RN Wessex Helicopter
(Right) A salute from an RN Wessex helicopter during a short trip in Holes Bay. photograph (right) by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Alan Thomas Receives His Award from Dame Naomi James
Coxswain Alan Thomas receives his award from Dame Naomi James. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Main Picture - Lifeboats from All Over the World
Main picture - Lifeboats from all over the world on demonstration at sea during conference week: (front) Dutch Valentyn class lifeboat, Watersporr. (middle) Norway's Emmy Dyvi class, Bergen Kreds; and (back), Finland's Rescue Cruiser... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Interesting New Concept In Lifeboat Design from Sweden.
An interesting new concept in lifeboat design from Sweden. Designed to combine the advantages of conventional construction and the RIB, the perimeter tubing is solid rather than inflatable.
Two of these lifeboats have now... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (47)
APRIL 23RD. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 6.41 A.M. a message was received from the St. Agnes coastguard that a Hurricane aeroplane had crashed into the sea one and a half miles N.E. by N. from Portreath, and at 7.38 A.M. the...