LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Premier
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the afternoon of the 2nd of January, 1951, the local fishing coble Premier, which had put out that morning, had not returned. As the weather was getting worse, anxiety was felt for her...
Holliwell
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.19 on the afternoon of the 22nd of July, 1954.
the coastguard telephoned that the Mid-Barrow lightvessel had wirelessed that the motor cruiser Holliwell, which had broken down with a crew of...
Venus II
PROPELLER WAS FOULED At 8.40 a.m. on ist June, 1964, the local motor fishing vessel Venus II reported to Whitby harbour by radio telephone that she had fouled her propeller with crab pots. Twenty minutes later the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth...
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Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At one o' clock on the morning of the 18th March, 1963, a message was received by the honorary secretary that there was a patient on the Isle of Rhum who needed a doctor. As no other suitable boat was available,...
Sheena
CHANCE MEETING SAVES DINGHY SAILOR Hastings, Sussex. On Sunday the 28th of July, 1963, while returning from a visit to Bexhill Regatta, the life-boat M.T.C.
intercepted a motor boat towing the sailing dinghy Sheena with a...
Brand X
BROKEN SHAFT At 5.46 p.m. on i4th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a cabin cruiser was flying distress signals about half a mile off Westgate bay. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. TJ) was launched at 6.5 in...
Cover Picture
After the naming of The Scout by HM The Queen, Hartlepool coxswain, Robert Maiden and crew members are presented to Her Majesty by Lieut.-Commander Harry Teare, divisional inspector of lifeboats (NE), and to HRH The Duke of Kent by Captain... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
BBC Wales Are Filming a New Drama Based
BBC Wales are filming a new drama based on the novel Ennals Point by Alun Richards.
The novel is about life in a fictitious lifeboat village and the six part television series is being filmed at The Mumbles. Philip Madoc... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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At 3.40 p.m. on I5th October, 1966, a patient required urgent hospital treatment.
The life-boat John Gellatly Hyndman with the patient and a nurse on board proceeded at 4.15. The tide was ebbing. The life-boat reached...
Carol, of Ipswich
Bembridge, Isle of Wight - At 1.24 a.m. on 3Oth April, 1967, news was received that distress flares had been sighted three miles from Bembridge lookout.
The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched at 1.47 in a light south south...