LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Inflatable Dinghies
Salcombe lifeboat THE HONORARY SECRETARY of SalCOmbe lifeboat station was informed by Brixham Coastguard at 1313 on Sunday April 10, 1983, that an inflatable dinghy had capsized on the Skerries Bank at the southern end of Start Bay: two...
St Simeon
French trawler in distress AT 0401 on the morning of Friday February 15, 1985, Falmouth's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Elizabeth Ann, left the lee of Falmouth docks heading out to sea on service at full speed. Coxswain Viv Pentecost was at...
Martell Cognac
The spirit of Tradition Michel Martell, the seventh generation of the Martell family to head this prestigious company, founded in 1715, was in England when the announcement was made to phase out the traditional Naval rum ration in 1970. This...
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Chalk and Cheese...
Travel the length and breadth of the Irish coastline and you will be greeted in almost every harbour of any size by the familiar blue-andorange livery of RNLI lifeboats.
At first this may come as no surprise, but between...
Category: Articles
Weymouth - South Division
Weymouth's sheltered and relatively deep harbour enables the station's Arun class to lie afloat - visible between the piles to the right of the harbour in the centre of the main photo.
The Arun can be seen more... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Janet
FEB. 27TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
During the afternoon the life-boat coxswain, returning from fishing, picked up the motor fishing boat Janet, of Thurso, with her engine broken down, about nine miles north-west of the...
An Estonian Steamer and King Egbert
DEC. 12TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 12.20 P.M.
a message was received from the coastguard that an Estonian steamer in the roadstead had picked up a shipwrecked crew and had asked that the life-boat should...
A Ship’s Boat (3)
SEPTEMBER 20TH. - DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD. During the night of 18th September the sound of bombs and heavy gunfire had been heard out at sea, and on the morning of the 20th a message came from the coast watchers at Hook Pointthat...
An Aeroplane (132)
SEPTEMBER 2lST. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At 6.10 A.M. a message was received from the naval signal station that an aeroplane had fallen into the sea near the north landing, and at 6.35 A.M. the motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albina Whitley...
An Aeroplane (154)
OCTOBER 19TH. - COVERACK, CORNWALL.
At 10.31 P .M. information was received, through the coastguard, that the coastwatching post at Kennack had seen an aeroplane crash into the sea in Kennack Bay, and in eight minutes the...