LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Richard H. Hayes, of Poole, Dorset. He has been coxswain for the past seven years..
Category: Articles
Welcoming the King
The Weymouth motor life-boat, among other vessels, greeting the King when he arrived at Weymouth on June 20th, 1938, on a visit to the fleet. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Boat Parakeet
Boulmer, Northumberland. At 11.35 on the morning of the 28th of August, 1959, the honorary secretary was in- formed that a sailing boat was lying to her anchor in a position which might become dangerous off the mouth of the River Aln. At...
Just the Ticket!
Just the ticket! Upon retirement from 23 years RNLI service, Assistant Manager of Depot General, Angela Miller (right), drew the winners of the 88th Lifeboat Lottery.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Mercedes-Benz
The Mercedes-Benz drawbar complete with trailer, at Poole's depot quay, dwarfs the Trent class lifeboat in the background with its exceptional span.. - View image in PDF
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The Screw Collier Ludworth
HASBOROUGH, NORFOLK.—On Sunday, the 2nd October, shortly before 5 o'clock in the morning, the screw collier Ludworth, of London, bound from Hartlepool to London, having sprung a leak, ran aground on Hasborough beach during a fresh gale...
The Barrels Rock Lightvessel
KILMORE, Co. WEXFORD.—On the 2nd January 1900 the Life-boat John Robert was launched at 1.45 A.M., rockets and guns having been fired from the Barrels Rock Light-vessel. A light S.E. wind was blowing at the time, the sea was moderate and the...
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 10 a.m.
on 26th January, 1965, the Irish Lights Office asked the honorary secretary for the use of the life-boat to convey a sick man from the Coningbeg Lightvessel to the mainland. The life-boat...
The Dredger Samphire
Fenit, and Valentia, Co. Kerry. — On the afternoon of the 80th of January, 1951, anxiety was felt for the safety of the crew of seven of the Tralee Harbour Commissioners dredger Samphire.
Nothing had been heard of...
The Tacht Bari
D class inflatable saves two from lee shore in near gale Helmsman Alan Attrill of Bembridge inshore lifeboat has been accorded the RNLFs Thanks on Vellum following the rescue last August of three people from a yacht aground on Bembridge...