LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Open House
Although visitors are always welcome at its Poole headquarters and depot, the RNLI makes a special effort every two years, throwing the whole site open to visitors for two days and putting on displays and demonstrations to illustrate its...
Category: Articles
Lifeguards Work Wet Summer
LIFEGUARDS WORK WET SUMMER Despite the met Offi ce reporting the wettest may–July since records began, RnLi lifeguards in england were very much in demand. in particular, spring tides led to a number of mass rescues, one of which you can...
Category: Articles
Cuban
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. — At 11.25 on the night of the 14th of April, 1952, the Kingston-on-Sea coastguard telephoned that the Brighton police had reported an auxiliary yacht appar- ently in distress, half a mile off shore and a quarter of...
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The Humber, Yorkshire. — 23rd October, 1939. A message had been received that a vessel had been torpedoed, and the explosion had been heard, but nothing could be found and it was assumed that the wrecked vessel's crew had been rescued by...
R.M.L. 539
TORPEDO BOAT TAKEN IN TOW Fishguard, Pembrokeshire.—On Decem- ber 30th, 1946, the motor torpedo boat R.M.L. 539, which was in tow of the tug Queensgarth, parted her tow-line during a gale five miles off the Smalls on the Pembrokeshire coast,...
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RESCUE FROM ROCKS At 8.15 p.m. on 24th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the local life-saving apparatus team was on its way to the Little Orme because two young men were stranded. At 8.30 the life-boat The Lilly...
Eric and Susan Hiscock (Wanderer) at Yarmouth
Eric and Susan Hiscock (Wanderer) at Yarmouth Yarmouth's new £1.8m all-weather Severn class lifeboat was named after Eric and Susan Hiscock, whose generous legacy provided the funding.
The naming ceremony was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Damage on service PADSTOW LIFEBOAT, a 48' 6" Oakley, with midship steering, James and Catherine Macfarlane, launched on service at 2256 on Tuesday, December 7, to investigate a report of red flares.
The wind was...
An Aeroplane (66)
AUGUST 7TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At 5.20 in the morning the lifeboat watchman saw a large bombing aeroplane come down on fire near the gate vessel.The sea was ablaze with burning petrol. The coxswain rang up the Royal...
A Vessel (6)
OCT. 23RD. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
A message had been received that a vessel had been torpedoed, and the explosions had been heard, but nothing could be found, and it was assumed that the wrecked vessel’s crew had been...