LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Photographs are notorious for reducing the apparent size of a wave - but one glance at that breaker, pictured between Teesmouth's Tyne class and the 97,000 tonne casualty, shows how truly horrendous the conditions were on 28 February.
Photographs are notorious for reducing the apparent size of a wave - but one glance at that breaker, pictured between Teesmouth's Tyne class and the 97,000 tonne casualty, shows how truly horrendous the conditions were on 28... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Firefly Aeroplane (1)
Cromarty, Whitehills, and Buckle, Banffshire.—About 1.30 in the after- noon of the 4th of March, 1952, the fishing boat Guiding Star returned to Whitehills with wreckage of a Firefly aeroplane which she reported had crashed about three and a...
A Rowing Boat
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 3.40 on the after- noon of the 21st of August, 1955, the piermaster of the East Pier rang up to say that a rowing boat with four men and a woman on board was in difficulties about one and a half miles off shore. Eight...
A Mirror Class Dinghy
Night search EXMOUTH DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY was informed by HM Coastguard at 0117 on Wednesday, July 28, that a Mirror Class dinghy, with a crew of two, was long overdue. In good visibility and with a gentle north-westerly breeze and...
A Dinghy (5)
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 12.32 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1957, the Worthing police reported that a dinghy had capsized a quarter of a mile off Lancing beach. The life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched at 12.43...
A Whitley Bombing Aeroplane
OCTOBER 30TH. - ST. MARY’S, SCILLY ISLES. A Whitley bombing aeroplane had been reported down 40 miles S.W. of Bishop Rock, but the life-boat returned, after going over thirty miles, as it was learned that motor launches had searched the area...
A Disabled Schooner
The Cenesta, of Harwich, on 3rd September, with ber sails blown away, in tow of a tug, with the Plymouth Motor Life-boat escorting her.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Yacht (3)
Poolc and Bournemouth, Dorset.—3rd October, 1938. Signals had been made by a yacht, but it was found that she was only signalling to another yacht.— Rewards, £31 Os. 6d..
A Bicycle Made for Eight!
A bicycle made for eight! Eight members of HM Coastguard undertook to pedal from Chepstow to Penarth, a distance of 50 miles, on a bicycle made for eight by Geoff Townsend.
They raised over £1,000 for the RNLI and are... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy (1)
DINGHY TOWED TO HARBOUR Falmouth, Cornwall. At 4.25 on the afternoon of the 30th March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy with one man on board appeared to be in difficulties off Shag Rock, St. Anthony Head....