LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
International Assistance from Westcountry Lifeboat
Penlee's relief Arun class A.J.R. and L.G. Uridge is pictured with two casualties, dealt with in a two-week period.
The lifeboat is pictured preparing to take an injured man off a120ft Spanish trawler in the sheltered... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Barry Bennett Has Been Coxswain of St.Mary's, Isles of Scilly Lifeboat Since 1991.
Today's lifeboatmen Barry Bennett has been coxswain of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly lifeboat since 1991.
Barry, who is a fisherman, first joined the crew in 1979 and served as second coxswain from 1985 until his... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (22)
SEPT. 9TH. - MARGATE, KENT, AND SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off Leysdown. The Margate life-boat was launched just after eleven at night in a thick fog and reached Leysdown two hours and twenty...
Karen Maria
OCTOBER 16TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.
At about 5.10 A.M. the Workington coastguard reported a red flare five to six miles away in a westerly direction, and asked for the life-boat crew to stand by. A westerly gale was...
An R.A.F. Speed Boat
JANUARY 16TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. At 12.30 P.M. the officer in command of the R.A.F. station asked for the life-boat to go to the help of an R.A.F. speed-boat, with a crew of three, which was in distress off Ramsey, and also to put men on...
Vega
AUGUST 22ND. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN.
At 5 P.M. the coastwatchers reported a yacht dismasted off the Bailey lighthouse. A strong squally W.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. A strong tide was running. The motor...
An Aeroplane (36)
OCTOBER 13TH. - ARBROATH, ANGUS.
At 3.15 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea three miles S.W. of Arbroath harbour.
A light southerly wind was blowing, and...
Brighter Dawn
DECEMBER 7TH. - BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At daybreak five motor fishing cobles put out lobster fishing. They had not been away very long when the southerly wind increased and the seas became heavy. Two of the cobles got...
Pop
AUGUST 28TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 4.38 in the afternoon the Foreland coastguard telephoned that a pilot at Sea View had reported a boat being blown off shore in the direction of Horse Sand Fort.
A south-west gale...
A Motor Fishing Boat
JUNE 7TH. - FENIT, CO. KERRY. At two in the morning a message was received that a motor fishing boat, with five men on board, was adrift in Tralee Bay. A fresh to strong south-west-to-west wind was blowing and the sea was choppy. At 2.20...