LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Meteor Aircraft (2)
Cromer, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 11.22 on the morning of the 24th of July, 1952, the Cromer coastguard telephoned the Cromer life-boat station that the R.A.F. at Neatishead had reported a Meteor aircraft as having...
Fishing Boats
FRASERBURGH.—The fishing boats having been overtaken by a strong gale from the E.N.B., and a heavy sea on the 1st November, it was considered advisable to launch the. Life-boat Cosmo and Charles at 12.15 P.M., so as to encourage the crews...
News
A picture paints a thousand words Getting timely and dramatic images of the lifeboat service to the media is crucial to raising awareness. The RNLI is now investing in new cameras at selected lifeboat stations to bring the heroic work of the...
Category: Articles
A Rescue Boat
Filey ILB launched at 1515 after the crew of a small boat had been reported waving an oar. It was one of the sailing club's own rescue boats and the club's other rescue boat came to her assistance, arriving just after the ILB. The...
Coronation
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 9.3 p.m. on 10th September, 1968, the honorary secretary was notified that flares had been sighted off Pakefield. The lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick slipped her moorings at 9.9 in a gentle south easterly wind with...
(Left) Steve Renyard,
(left) Steve Renyard, nearest camera and Chris Rislev undertake one of the more pleasant tasks - running up the engines on Wavenev 44-001 by taking her out on the Medway.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Westlands
MAY 13TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 1.15 in the morning the police reported a vessel was in trouble off Egremont stage, and on enquiry the honorary secretary was told that part of the stage, with a searchlight and soldiers on it, had been...
Silver Quest (4)
Five lifeboats in long search for lost fishermen Newcastle, Co. Down's, Oakley class lifeboat Jane Hay and Portaferry's Atlantic 21 Blue Peter V took part in long searches for the two crewmen from a fishing boat Silver Quest which...
Progress, Prosperity, Pilot Me, Lead Us, Easter Morn
Whitby, Yorkshire. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 18th of April, 1959, an ex-coxswain of the life-boat, who is today a boathouse attendant, told the honorary secretary that while attending his boats in the upper harbour he had...
Reliance
CULLERCOATS.—On the 20th November the Reliance fishing-coble, which had gone out at 4 A.M. for the purpose either of piloting or fishing, was returning to the harbour at about 9.30, by which time the sea had much increased, and it was...