LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sailing Vessel Wander Bird
On the evening of the 1st October a message was received from Horse Sand Fort that a vessel was stranded about two hundred yards north of Southsea Castle.
A strong N.W. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life...
The Mumbles Lifeboat Station
The skipper and one of the crew of the yacht Duet, competing in this year's Three Peaks Yacht Race, presented £J,255 raised in sponsorship to The Mumbles lifeboat station. (I to r) Second Coxswain Alan Jones, Coxswain Derek Scott,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Mechanical Digger
Driver saved from sinking digger Helensburgh - Scotland South Division Helensburgh's Atlantic 21 carried out an unusual rescue on 29 May 1989 when a survivor was safely landed from a mechanical digger which had become bogged down with a...
Coxswain Robert Maiden of Hartlepool (East Division)
Coxswain Robert Maiden of Hartlepool (East Division) joined the lifeboat crew in 1961, and was bowman from 1966 to 1967.
He was second coxswain from 1967 until 1968 when the station closed, but in 1976, when it re-opened,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Yacht
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...
First Severn on Station
The first of the RNLI's new 25-knot Severn class lifeboats has entered service at Harwich in Essex.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Rowing Boat and Red Robin
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 2.8 on the afternoon of the 26th of June, 1956, the Foreland coastguard telephoned that a small rowing boat appeared to be in difficulties off Yaveiiand Fort.
At 2.22 the life-boat Jesse Lumb...
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Plymouth, Devon-At 9.24 p.m. on 18th May, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man was trapped on rocks at the foot of the cliffs at Bovisand fort. The lifeboat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse with the boarding boat in tow...
See Wee
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire - At 4.24 a.m. on 16th March, 1969, it was learnt that the motor boat See Wee, with three men on board, on passage from Llandlwyn Island was overdue. The life-boat Cunard, on temporary duty at the station, was...
Tomasina
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 4.27 on the afternoon of the 14th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had cap- sized in the Solent between Lymington Spit buoy and Fort Albert. The life- boat...