LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht (8)
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 2.8 p.m.
on 26th August, 1965, a yacht was reported to have capsized off Westcliffe swimming pool. At 2.9 the IRB launched in a gentle to moderate south-westerly breeze and rough sea. She came up...
Caught in a loch
10 November 2012: When a fundraising swimmer’s support boat broke down on Loch Ness and began to drift onto the rocky shores, the skipper wasted no time in calling for help. The volunteer crew from Loch Ness were...
Category: Articles
A Rowing Boat
REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.—At about 10 A.H., on the 25th June, a rowing boat, which had gone out early in the morning to gather mussels in the Tees, attempted to make for Redcar. Her crew of a man and two boys were in danger as the wind had...
A Dell Quay Dory
Found in time THE NIGHT OF JANUARY 11, 1987 W3S bitterly cold, with temperatures falling to minus 10°C along the south coast.
In Poole Harbour a north-easterly wind created a chill factor of minus 15°C or more, so...
A Gannet Aircraft
Coverack, The Lizard, Falmouth and Cadgwith, Cornwall.—At 8.38 oil the evening of the 19th of February, 1957, the Royal Naval Air Station at Cul- drose reported that a Gannet aircraft, with a crew of three, was believed to have crashed into...
A Motor Launch
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.—At 12.10 early on the morning of the 8th of November, 1956, a telephone message was received from the Dublin harbour office that a motor launch with three men on board needed help two hundred yards south of Poolbeg...
A Yacht (1)
OLD LIFE-BOAT WEATHERED STORM Lytham St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 2.45 p.m. on nth July, 1965, a two masted yacht was seen off the Wall End buoy, apparently receiving a heavy battering from the seas. There was a west-by-south wind of near...
Presentation By Rear- Admiral Sir Edmund Irving a Vice-President of the Institution to Littlestoneon- Seu Ilb Crew of a Telescope Paid for By the Romney Marsh Ladies'
Presentation by Rear- Admiral Sir Edmund Irving, a vice-president of the Institution, to Littlestoneon- Seu ILB crew of a telescope paid for by the Romney Marsh ladies' darts league (see right). The league cup for 1977/78 was won by the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Small Speed Boat
Swanage, Dorset.— At 9.5 P.M. on the 14th August, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard that a small speed-boat was showing distress signals off the Anvil Point Lighthouse.
The weather was fine and the sea was...
Pulling a Bird!
Denis Twomey, RNLI area organiser for the South West, and 74 students from Bristol University Air Squadron recently managed to pull a 65 tonne Hercules aircraft a mile along runway 24 at RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire.
The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs