LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Whinlather
NEWHAVEN.—The Coxswain of the Lifeboat Michael Henry was informed on the morning of the 12th January that a large ship was ashore at Portobello. He atonce summoned the crew, and at 8.45 the Life-boat was launched. On reaching the vessel she...
Rescue Mania
Beautiful clear blue skies were the backdrop for an international rescue event, Rescue Mania 1996. Largely organised by members of the Netherlands Reddingsbrigade and local volunteers, and involving some two years of planning and a week of...
Category: Articles
A Hard Shoulder to Lean On.
A hard shoulder to lean on.
Motorists on the M25 had something to distract them from the inevitable traffic jams in July when the ex- Courtmacsherry Solent class lifeboat R.
Hope Roberts made a passage to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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FORT IN DANGER OF COLLAPSING Margate, Kent.—At 2.33 in the after- noon of the 5th of December, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that the Com- mander-in-Chief at the Nore had asked that the life-boat should take off the crew of four of the...
4. Looking Up Towards the Ilc's Training Centre.
4. Looking up towards the ILC's Training Centre. Photo Bob Kennovin. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Salacon
Early on the morning of the 17th May the life- boat watchman heard a vessel sounding SOS on her siren, and a little later the Spurn Royal Naval Signal Station telephoned that a trawler was ashore near Kilnsea Beacon. She was the steam...
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JANUARY MEETING BARROW, LANCASHIRE, and MILLOM, CUMBERLAND.
At four in the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1942, the naval base asked the Barrow life-boat station to search for an aeroplane which had crashed north of...
Category: Services
A Small Yacht
JUNE 30TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 1.40 in the morning a telephone message came from the relatives of three young men who had left Keyhaven during the afternoon for a trip in a small yacht and had not returned. The motor life-boat...
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Stromness, Orkneys.—At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 14th of Jan- uary, 1955, a local doctor asked if the life-boat would take a sick woman in need of hospital treatment to Scapa pier, because the road from Stromness to Kirkwall...
Salazar and Painted Lady
New Brighton, Cheshire - At 3.20 p.m.
on 30th May, 1970, the coastguard reported that the motor cruiser Salazar had broken down and was being carried over the Burbo bank.
There were two people on board.<...