LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dramatic Pictures
Really good photographs of life-boats at sea in rough weather are almost impossible to come by. Photographs of actual rescue operations are almost as rare. This is an understandable state of affairs, for the life-boat is, by the nature of...
Category: Articles
Pandamac
IN SINKING CONDITION At 12.25 P-m- on 26th April, 1965, the coxswain, who was off duty on sick leave, informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was burning red flares two miles south-east of Dungeness. There was a moderate...
Your Letters
Who are these heros? I thought this photograph (right) might be of interest to readers - it was taken by me when I visited Honfleur, Normandy in June this year. My recognition is not all that good but is she an old Watson lifeboat? There was...
Category: Correspondence
Fishing Cobles
FLAMBOROUGH.—Thewindrose suddenly at about 9 A.M. on the 8th February, and continued to increase in force until, at about 10.30, it was blowing a fierce gale from the N.W., and there was a heavy sea.
As some of the fishing...
Neco Marine Ltd
J. H. MINET LIFE & PENSIONS LTD is proud of its close association with the R.N.L.I, as advisers to its employees on all aspects of life assurance, investment and house purchase.
As part of MINET HOLDINGS, one of the...
Category: Advertisement
Blackburn Rovers
INJURED MAN At 2.35 p.m. on 28th March, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Grimsby trawler Blackburn Rovers in Bridlington Bay had an injured man on board. There was a fresh north westerly breeze with a moderate...
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TWENTY-THREE CHILDREN CUT OFF BY TIDE Newhaven, Sussex. At 3.25 on the afternoon of the 29th June, 1963, the Newhaven coastguard informed the coxswain that the police had reported twenty-three children cut off by the tide at Seaford head....
Fishing Boats
— Several fishing boats were making for the harbour during a S.
wind, on the morning of the 18th May, and as a very heavy sea was breaking across the entrance, it was evident that the boats would encounter some amount of...
A Dinghy
Falmouth, Cornwall.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 12th of May, 1956, the life-boat Craziford and Con- stance Conybeare was returning to her moorings after she had been beached for bottom cleaning, when a dinghy was seen to...
Davenport and Jenny Lemelin
On the 28th November the brig Davenport, of South Shields, was seen in a sinking state in Pake- field Gatway. The- Pakefield life-boat was at once launched; but before she could close with the vessel, the crew had taken to their long-boat,...