LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rubber Dinghy
At 3.30 p.m. on 28th August, 1967, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that two teenagers who had set out soon after breakfast in a rubber dinghy had not returned.
In view of the dense fog and the number of boats...
Ema
Penlee, Cornwall. At 10 a.m. on nth November, 1965, the St. Just coastguard told the coxswain that a ship had reported seeing mattresses in the sea five miles south-east of Tater Du lighthouse. The mattresses were possibly from the missing...
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...
North Sunderland Lifeboat
North Sunderland lifeboat crew look on while Jane Sutherland, grand-daughter of Lady Sutherland, president of the ladies' guild, presents a salmon to Bill Steel of Tyne Tees Television who opened the annual lifeboat fete at Seahouses.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Eastbourne:
Eastbourne: While the station's 37ft 6in Rather class lifeboat, Duke of Kent, was out on exercise on the morning of Sunday September 9, 1984, a sailboarder was seen from the shore to be in difficulty and the Coastguard asked... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Leon Jeannine
Stranded fishing vessel GALE FORCE southerly winds were blowing and heavy seas breaking in the bay when, on the evening of Monday November 26,1984, the honorary secretary of Kirkcudbright lifeboat station was informed by Ramsey coastguard...
A Boat (3)
JULY 13TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. At 4.8 P.M. the coastguard reported a waterlogged boat about a mile S.W. of the coastguard station. The sea was slight with moderate S.W wind blowing. At 4.28 P.M.
the motor life-boat Cyril...
A Small Open Pulling Boat
MAY 1ST. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
At about 1.20 P.M. the coastguard reported a small open pulling boat about two and a half miles from the look-out, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched at 1.30 P.M. A...
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SEPTEMBER 2ND. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
At 8.30 in the morning the medical officer of Yell telephoned for the life-boat to fetch a sick woman from Fetlar to Lerwick for hospital treatment. No other suitable vessel was...
Ole Knude
MARCH 13TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
About 9.20 in the morning the coastguard reported that a small Danish fishing boat was hove to near Whitby Rock Buoy, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched at 9.35. A...