LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cover Picture
Just seconds after launching, the crew of Shoreham Harbour lifeboat, the 42ft Watson Dorothy and Philip Constant, raise the radar scanner anil radio aerials which are folded back while the boat is in her boathouse.
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Lady Maude
Redcar, Yorks. At 9.45 a.m. on the 26th of June, 1965, a fishing coble was reported in difficulties about two miles away in a rough sea. The life-boat Aguila Wren launched at 9.50 on a flooding tide and soon came up with the coble Lady Maude...
A Steamer (10)
DEC. 2ND. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.
A steamer was thought to be in distress fifteen to twenty miles from Bridlington, but the life-boat found that a derelict, with a cargo of oil, had been sunk by the Admiralty. and the oil...
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News
Your guide to what's been going on in the world of the RNLI
Our Annual General Meeting (AGM) is on the road again this year – 2017’s event will be at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow on Thursday...
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Honour
Amble, Northumberland - At 2.35 p.m. on i4th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three fishing cobles were in difficulties in South bay. The life-boat Millie Walton slipped her moorings at 2.57 in a strong east...
Solstad
OC T. 10T H . - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS, AND ABERDEEN. The Swedish vessel Solstad, of Karlstad, had been reported in distress with her steering gear dis-abled, about fifteen miles S.E. of Montrose, and the Montrose motor life-boat was unable...
Regulus and a Dinghy
It was a dark and stormy night...
The Invergordon lifeboat Douglas Aikman Smith was launched just before midnight on 10 May 2002, following reports that two craft were overdue at Golspie, in winds of Force 5-6. Contact was...
A Ship’s Boat marked D.383 V.H.JB.
FEBRUARY 3RD. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE. At 5.30 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a ship’s boat could be seen in the river by the Twelfth Mile Light. A strong south-east breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. It was...
Sealark
MA Y 22ND . - FERRYSIDE, CAR- MARTHENSHIRE. At 7.57 in the evening the Pembrey coastguard telephoned that a boat was in distress half a mile off shore, and the pulling and sailing life-boat Richard Ashley slipped her moorings at 8.27 and put...