LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Boats
OCTOBER 2 2ND. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. Shortly before noon the sea became heavy, with an easterly wind blowing.
A number of fishing boats were making for harbour and the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at noon...
Anthony Oliver, the RNLI's Deputy Head of Fundraising and Marketing, Reads the Winning Number on a Ticket Drawn By Miss Millvina Dean
Anthony Oliver, the RNLI's deputy head of fundraising and marketing, reads the winning number on a ticket drawn by Miss Millvina Dean. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cover Picture
Bridlington 37ft Oakley lifeboat William Henry and Mary King setting out through heavy swells in the harbour month on August 14, 1979, to go to the help of the fishing coble Sincerity a mile south east of the station. The lifeboat was under... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dunlin
Rescue party rescued Weymouth's Arun class lifeboat Tony Vandervell, a naval helicopter and the destroyer HMS Edinburgh were all involved in an incident where three fishermen were airlifted to safety from their sinking trawler Dunlin on...
Emile
Shortly after 2 P.M. on the 15th May information was received that one of the fishing- boats, which had gone drifting for mackerel the previous night at 6.30 P.M., was missing. A strong N.E. gale had been blowing all night, and the Coast-...
Guide Me
St. Abbs, Berwickshire. At n a.m.
on nth November, 1965, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that the motor fishing boat Guide Me had not returned to harbour with the rest of the fishing fleet, following a gale warning...
Nanteos
LITTLEHAVEN, PEMBROKESHIRE. — Two schooners were at anchor in St. Bride's Bay, "while a gale of wind was blowing from the S. on the 25th January. It was thought advisable to warn the crew of the Life-boat Friend, to be in readiness...
A Floating Crane
FEBRUARY 2ND. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 1.20 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities at Portsmouth had reported a floating crane in difficulties in Hayling Bay. A moderate south-west gale was blowing, with a rough...
A Helicopter
Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.7 on the even- ing of the llth October, 1961, the life- boat Michael and Lily Davis had just completed an exercise with a Royal Air Force helicopter off Ramsgate. There was a light south-westerly breeze with a slight sea...
Paragon
NEAR LIGHTVESSEL Cloughey, Co. Down. At 2.25 p.m.
on loth December, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Paragon was drifting near South Rock lightvessel with her engines broken down. The...