LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Janet
The schooner Janet, of Carnarvon, whilst bound from Yarmouth to Portsmouth, with a cargo of wood, stranded on the 10th January on the Holm Sand. The No. 1 Life- joat Kentwell, in tow of a tug, proceeded to her assistance, but just before she...
Dear reader
My son was 4 at the time. We were living at Staithes, in North Yorkshire, and he started trying to swim across the harbour.
I shouted, but he didn’t come back – he just kept swimming. I jumped in fully clothed, reached him...
Category: Articles
Fiducia
At 5.20 P.M.
on the 19th February, a schooner was observed aground on the Bell Buoy shoal. There was a moderate southerly gale at the time and the sea was heavy.
The Life-boat John Burch was therefore...
Anna Hendrika and a Rubber Dinghy
Holyhead, Anglesey - At 4.55 p.m.
on 6th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Dutch trawler had struck the Flattens, and was aground, but the local pilot boat and a boat from a Holyhead boatyard...
Cover Picture
cover picture: A member of the RnLI’s Rapid Response Unit watches over an evacuee in the summer floods Photo: robin Goodlad. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Security
AGROUND At 9.36 a.m. on 2ist May, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a cabin cruiser called Security was aground on Margate sands. The boat was kept under observation from the harbour by the coxswain and honorary secretary, who...
Cariad
TOW FOR YACHT WITH TWO ABOARD Ilfracombe, Devon. At 11.50 on the night of the 20th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was flashing sos off Highveer Point, Lynmouth. There was a moderate breeze...
Below Left: a Brighton Crew Member
Below left: A Brighton crew member lends a helping hand to one of the flood's smaller victims.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Barrow September 27 1986:
Barrow, September 27, 1986: from model lifeboats to the real thing! The model lifeboat rallies organised by Des Newton since 1979 helped provide the funds to pay for Barrow's new 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat, Modeller I. The handing... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fishing Coble
On the 27th February, the Life-boat afforded help to the crew of a fishing coble who had lost their way in a very thick fog. *A life-belt was given to each of the three men and the boat was taken in tow, one of the Life-boat men going on...