LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (14)
MAY 26TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
At 10.10 in the morning the police reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea opposite Cleveleys Hydro. There was a variable north-east wind and the sea calm.
At...
Cover Picture
Shoreham Harbour's D class inflatable lifeboat on exercise. Inflatable lifeboats have been stationed at Shoreham for the summer season, from April to October, since 1967. In that time they have launched 450 times anil rescued 233 people.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Braemar
Stromness, Orkney.—On the 24th June the steam trawler Braemar, of Aberdeen, homeward bound from fishing, ran ashore on the north side of Birsay in a thick fog. A moderate N.
breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. News was...
A Hawker Hendley Target-Towing Aeroplane
AUGUST 9TH . - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
At 12.29 in the afternoon a message was received from the coastguard that a Hawker Hendley target-towing aeroplane had crashed into the sea. A light northerly wind was blowing, with a...
Harriet Masser from Windsor
Not wanting to see a bumper crop of apples from the garden go to waste, Harriet Masser from Windsor made herself a poster, washed all the apples and placed them in a basket on her doorstep, asking passers-by to put donations for the RNLI... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy (3)
Torbay, Devon. At 1.48 on the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1959, the police at Torquay told the honorary secretary that a dinghy was in difficulties off Maidencombe beach. Her occu- pants were waving for help, and at 1.55 the life-boat...
M.F.V. Arctic Solatair, two Motor Boats and two Sailboards
Five calls WHEN, ON THE, AFTERNOON of Saturday September 17, 1983, the 35ft MFV Arctic Solatair picked up a floating rope around her propeller and went ashore at Skinningrove, about six miles south of Redcar, Tees Coastguard telelphoned the...
Foxfield
Walmer, Kent.—At 9.30 on the morn- ing of the 7th of September, 1957, the Deal coastguard reported that the motor vessel Foxfield. bound for Bel- fast, had taken on board two survivors from a catamaran found sinking near Sandette Bank. The...
Bullfrog
The following account of a service by the Lizard, Cornwall, life-boat on the 30th June, 1961, was received too late for inclusion in the September number of the Life-boat: At 11.23 in the morning the coast- guard informed the honorary...
Frequent Flyer
Southend-on-Sea’s hovercraft crew had a busy day on 23 May.
Their first job, with the local Coastguard team, was to search an area of low water for an unexploded mine. They found it, marked it with a buoy and informed a...
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