LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Boat
Kilmore Quay, Co. Wexford.—At 8.20 on the evening of the 23rd of August, 1956, a telephone message was received that a fishing boat had been driven ashore on the Great Keragh, and that a man and a woman had waded in from her. At 8.30 the...
Silanion
Longhope, Orkney, and Thurso, Caith- ness-shire.—The Longhope motor life- boat Thomas McCunn was launched at 11.30 P.M., and the Thurso motor life-boat H.C.J. at 11 P.M., on the 25th February, as news had been received from the coastguard...
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Mallaig, Inverness-shire.—At 4.10 on the afternoon of the 14th of December, 1955, the doctor on the Isle of Eigg telephoned the life-boat station that he had a patient suffering from appen- dicitis, who must be taken to hospital at once. As...
H.M.S. Leigh
OCTOBER 8TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 10.15 in the morning the naval control reported that the tug H.M.S. Leigh was ashore on the Nore Sands. The weather was very foggy, with a light north-west wind and a smooth sea. The motor...
An Admiralty Drifter and Rosa (1)
DEC. 13TH. - BLYTH, AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. An Admiralty drifter had been blown up by enemy action, but Blyth life-boat could find no survivors.
She was then directed to a position where...
Mary and Surprise
Hastings, Sussex.—About half past six on the night of the 2nd of November, 1950, a message was received that flares had been seen about two and a half miles east of Hastings Harbour.
At 6.45 the life-boat M.T.C. was...
When Severe Flooding Took Place In Guildford In September 1968 An RNLI Inshore Rescue Boat from the RFD Co Ltd Factory at Godalming Surrey Was Used for Resc
When severe flooding took place in Guildford in September, 1968, an R.N.L.l. - View image in PDF
inshore rescue boat from the R.F.D. Co. Ltd. factory at Godalming, Surrey, was used for rescue purposes in the High Street.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mary J. Masson
The steam drifter Mary J. Masson, of Fraserburgh, stranded in thick weather on the Bondicar Rocks while homeward bound from Yarmouth, where she had been for the herring fishing, and the Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Mary Andrew was launched...
Rescue
Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues every year (see launches on page 32). Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the list below for more reports:
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Category: Articles
Frolic
Swanage, Dorset. At 6.20 on the evening of the 23rd of May, 1959, the coastguard told the assistant secretary, who was at the boathouse with the coxswain and the motor mechanic, that a yacht was burning red flares three to four miles...