LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Angle Life-Boat Lands Nine People From The "Etrog". - View image in PDF

On the 8th Fe- bruary, the Norwegian barque Galatea ran on shore on the bar at the entrance of Youghal harbour, the captain having mistaken the port for Queenstown: a gale of wind was blow- ing at the time from the south, and there was a...

Fishing party DUNGENESS LIFEBOAT, the 37ft 6in Rother Alice Upjohn, had launched on exercise on Thursday March 8 and was close to her station when, at 1700, two local fishermen on shore were seen waving. Second Coxswain Peter Thomas, in...

On the evening of the 28th July telephone messages were received from the Coast- guard that a small yacht was at anchor in a dangerous position about 300 yards off shore, and that she would probably take tie ground and capsize when the tide...

RESCUES FROM CAPSIZED CANOES Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 16th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two canoes, with two men in each, had overturned off Amroth...

Home made raft TWO YOUTHS, aged 15 and 17 launched a home made raft from the slipway at Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire, at about 1510 on Sunday June 10. 1979.

It was nearly high water and a moderate breeze was...

Two naming ceremonies in one day were carried out by H.R.H. Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, on Thursday, 8th July, 1965.

Arriving by a helicopter of the Queen's Flight at Cromer and landing on the playing field of...

What do you do when your boat starts to sink – so fast you don’t even have time to make a distress call? You hope there’s a lifeboat nearby …

It was a typical Sunday morning for the crew of...