LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Laurel
On the morn- ing of the 26th September, the fish- ing boat Laurel, of St. Abbs, was seen approaching harbour. As a strong N.E. gale was blowing with a very heavy sea and heavy rain, the Motor Life-boat Helen Smitton was launched at 10.30 A.M...
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On the 14th January there was an urgent call from Inisheer, the most southerly of the Aran Isles, for a doctor. A heavy sea was running and a gale was threat- ening. No boat could be found to venture out, so the motor life-boat William....
A Steamer (1)
Sheringham, Norfolk. — 7th April, 1938. A steamer had reported by wireless, through Humber Radio Station, that she had seen an aeroplane fall into the sea in flames near the Dudgeon Light-vessel, but a long search revealed no trace of the...
Cachalot (2)
Clacton-on'Sea, and Southend-on-Sea, Essex, and Margate, Kent.—Early on the morning of the 25th October the yacht Cachalot, of Burnham-on-Crouch, with one man on board, got intodifficulties near the Mid-Barrow...
A Motor Boat
Stronsay, and Stromness, Orkneys.— At 10.24 on the night of the 26th of May, 1954, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned the Stronsay life-boat sta- tion that a man had left St. Catherine's Bay in a motor boat for Kirkwall at five...
Christmas Cards and Calendars
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar for sale. The card will be a repro- duction in colour of the picture on this page. It is a photograph of the 45' 6" Penlee life-boat W.
and S....
Category: Advertisement
Dr Joseph Soar
There was a service of commemoration for Dr. Joseph Soar, M.B.E., an honorary life governor of the R.N.L.I. and secretary of the St. David's branch, at St. David's Cathedral on 13th August, 1972. A memorial plaque to Dr. Soar was...
Category: Articles
Calendars and Cards
The R.N.L.I. Christmas card for 1968 will feature a reproduction of an excellent colour transparency showing the Skegness life-boat at sea. The card will sell at 9d., complete with envelope.
There will also be for the first...
Category: Advertisement
Silver Coquet
Amble, Northumberland. At 8.34 a.m. on 8th May, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing coble was in difficulties half a mile east of Cresswell. At 8.58 the Life-boat Millie Walton was launched in a westnorth-...
Sennen Cove's Rother Class Lifeboat Diana White
Sennen Cove's Rother class lifeboat Diana White tows Koo-She and her four-man crew to safety.
The size of the sea can be gauged from the yacht - a sizeable 44ft ketch - as can the difficulty of towing a casualty without... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs