LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two British Aeroplanes
JUNE 4TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
During the afternoon the Kinnaird Head coastguard reported a splash and the sound of an explosion bearing 360° from Kinnaird Head two miles distant, just after two British...
Lady Amanda
Injured couple rescued from yacht aground in heavy surfThe Chairman of the RNLI, Michael Vernon, has written a letter of congratulation to helmsman William Walker-Jones of Criccieth's inshore lifeboat following the rescue of two people...
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Category: Services
A Magnificent Service on the East Coast
As the Journal goes to press the reports have been received of a magnificent service on the East Coast on 21st and 22nd November, in which the Motor Life-boats at Cromer, Gorleston, and Southwold all took part. The Dutch oil-tanker Georgia...
Category: Services
A Fishing Vessel
Scottish crews out in numbers Ravaged by remnants of the hurricane season, the British Isles were soaked and windswept in late summer 2004. At the end of one of the wettest Augusts on record, the rough sea conditions off the northern tip of...
A Wellington Aeroplane
SEARCHING FOR AIRMEN Margate, and Ramsgate, Kent. — Shortly after 7.30 on the night of the 20th of November, 1947, the R.A.F. at Manston reported to the coastguard that a Wellington aeroplane was down in the sea north-east of...
Junio
On trials and passage EVEN BEFORE a new lifeboat reaches her station she is very likely to have started her service to seafarers. The 33ft Brede lifeboat Caroline Finch, which was placed on service at Exmouth lifeboat station on August 4,...
Febo
PENARTH, GLAMORGANSHIRE.—At 1 P.M.
on the 14th October the barque Febo, of Genoa, exhibited signals of distress, having lost her fore and mainmasts, and having parted from three chain cables.
A steam-tug...
Six Men Were Rescued By Breeches Buoy from the Dutch Coaster
Six men were rescued by breeches buoy from the Dutch coaster Jan Brons which ran aground on Ardnamult Head in south-westerly gales on March I I , 1964. Stephen Whittle, then second coxswain, and Assistant Mechanic John Power volunteered to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
This Dramatic Photograph Taken from the Bembridge Lifeboat Shows the Coastguard Helicopter
This dramatic photograph taken from the Bembridge lifeboat shows the Coastguard helicopter making a transfer from Jenny Wren south of the Isle of Wight. The rough sea conditions are very evident.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs