LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Classification of Services By Life-Boats
CLASS Fishing boats - all types Motor vessels, steamers, barges, motor boats, etc.
Sailing yachts, sailing dinghies, sailing boats, motor cruisers and motor yachts Aircraft Small boats, canoes, rubber dinghies,...
Category: Services
Vintage Occasion
Vintage occasion The Belton and O'Neill families from Oxted, Surrey have entered the Beaulieu and Weymouth vintage car rally for the last six years. This is put on by the Wimborne branch of the RNLI and organised by the National... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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LIFE-BOAT BRINGS EXPECTANT MOTHER TO HOSPITAL Campbeltown, Argyllshire. At 11.30 on the morning of the 8th February, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that as a result of an exceptional blizzard in Kintyre every road was...
Warragaburra
Dover, Kent.—At one in the morning of the 6th of October, 1948, the Eastern Arm Signal Station reported that a yacht was making S.O.S. signals in Langdon Bay,, and at 1.20 the motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot was...
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Boy on cliffs AT 2133 ON SUNDAY, June 27, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Holyhead lifeboat station that a boy had fallen 200 feet down the cliffs and into the sea at North Stack but had swum back to the cliffs and had...
Little Orme
SAW RED FLARE Rhyl, Flintshire. At 4.20 p.m. on nth October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Little Orme had sighted a red flare near the river Clwyd. The sea was moderate with a heavy swell and...
Progress and Loch Kanza Castle (1)
New Brighton, and Hoylake, Cheshire.— On the 23rd November, 1938, the New Brighton No. 1 motor life-boat rescued the crew of three of the fishing boat Progress, of Hoylake, and the crew of four of the auxiliary schooner Loch Kanza Castle, of...
Energetic £300K
Scottish and Southern Energy has committed to donating £100,000 a year to the RNLI for the next 3 years.
The money will be spent on crew training at Aldeburgh, Harwich, Lowestoft and Southwold lifeboat stations....
Category: Articles
Marys
On the 16th January the Life-boat Andrew Pickard was again called out on service while a whole gale of wind was blowing from the S.E. The ketch Marys, of Aberystwith, while running for Hantoon Channel, having lost her mainsail, and showing...
A Naval Launch from H.M.S. Battleaxe
Exmouth, Devon. — About two o'clock in the early morning of the 6th of July, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat appeared to be aground on the Maer Rocks, but no distress signals were being made and a private motor boat had...