LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sprite
APRIL 22ND. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. The coastguard kept a yacht under observation for some hours. The sea was very heavy, a N.W. gale was blowing, and it was decided to send out help. At 2.25 P.M.
the motor life-boat...
Fishing Boats (3)
At about 1 P.M. on the afternoon of the 19th March, the fleet of fishing boats, seventeen in number, which had gone out during the morning, were seen making for the harbour, the tide then being one hour's flood and the sea breaking very...
Ameland
Life-Boat O.N. 70-001. At 12.10 a.m.
on yth February, 1966, the crew of the first seventy foot steel life-boat, anchored in Clovelly roads, intercepted a message on the radio from the German motor vessel Ameland stating...
Fleetwood’s New Facility Was Designed By Local Architect Eric Forster And Is Sympathetic To Historic Buildings Around It
Fleetwood’s new facility was designed by local architect Eric Forster and is sympathetic to historic buildings around it. - View image in PDF
It includes a training room, communication centre, crew room and RNLI shop. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Kathleen
At 8.37 p.m. on 30th July, 1966, it was noticed that a motor boat one mile northnorth- west of Cape Cornwall had fired a distress rocket. The life-boat Susan Ashley was launched at 8.45 in a strong north-westerly wind and a very rough sea....
Sea Ranger
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 10 p.m.
on 2nd August, 1965, the motor yacht Queen of the Isles reported that a yacht was sinking three miles east of Menawethan.
Fifteen minutes later the lifeboat...
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Seal of approval Mumbles South West Division Mumbles lifeboatmen took part in an unusual rescue in July when they saved a seal from an early grave by freeing it from a fishing net.
The old seal, which is well known in the...
Teesmouth Lifeboat
Teesmouth lifeboat, the 47ft Watson Sarah Jane and James Season, was on passage to Hanlepool on August 16, 1981. under the command of Coxswain William Carter when she was informed b Tees Coastguard that the motor cruiser Marietta was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Obituaries
IT is with deep regret that we record the following deaths: December, 1985 Coxswain William Crowley, who joined the Fenit, Co Kerry, lifeboat crew in 1928. He was bowman from 1936 to 1938, second coxswain from 1938 to 1942 and from 1945 to...
Category: Obituaries
Naval Motor Boats
SEPTEMBER 22ND. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. Naval motor boats had been reported in need of help, but with the help of a tug, and escorted by a motor launch, they reached Harwich. - Rewards, £4 3s.