LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Naming Ceremony: City of Bristol
CLYDE CLASS 70-003 LOA 71' : Beam 18' : Displacement 87 tonsLATEST OF the Clyde class lifeboats, 70-003, was named City of Bristol by the Lady Mayoress of Bristol, Mrs A. G.
Peglar, at Narrow Quay, Bristol, on...
Category: Inaugurations
(Below Left) 'It's Broke Mister! Can You Fix It?'
(below left) 'It's broke Mister! Can you fix it?' Roy White carries out some running maintenance on the 'towing tank'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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The Newhaven lifeboat was also involved in the rescue caught in the dramatic photograph (left) from the harbour wall on 24 July, 1988.
A swimmer, visible under the lifeboat's starboard bow, is being hauled from the...
Two Landing Craft The L.B.V.33, and The L.B.V.42
JANUARY 2 4TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. About 2.30 in the afternoon the naval authorities asked, through the coastguard, for the life-boat to go to the help of two landing craft about a mile south of Shoreham. A strong southerly wind was...
The Three-Masted Steamer Victoria
— On the 28th November, the three-masted steamer Victoria, of Barnstaple, whilst bound from Hamburg to Bideford with a cargo of agricultural salt, stranded about three miles to the north of Mable- thorpe. In response to her signals of...
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MAN OFF CLIFFS At 9.50 a.m. on 22nd January, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a man had been washed off the cliffs at Lands End. The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched at 10.6 in a strong west-northwesterly breeze and a...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
EASTBOURNE.—The Life-boat on this Station has been exchanged for a new boat, provided by some friends of the Institution at Manchester, through J. F.
MILNE, Esq. At their request it is named the William and Mary. It is 34...
Category: Articles
A Small Boat
6th June. A small boat was in difficulties, but made land at Birchington without help.—Re- wards, £8 11s..
Sinking serene
9 April: Bridlington, Yorkshire Four fishermen were rescued by two lifeboats when their vessel, the Serene, ran aground after it lost power. Bridlington RNLI’s two lifeboats tried to pump the water from the boat,...
Category: Articles
Mary
JOHNSHAVEN, KlNCARDINESHIRE. The fishing-lugger Mary, of Johnshaven, was seen making for the harbour on the evening of the 5th May. A heavy dangerous sea was running, there was very little wind and the water was low, so that it was...