LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Pilot Coble
On the 12th August, during a strong wind from the N.E., a pilot coble was seen in distress off this place, the crew being afraid to cross the bar in the very heavy sea running at the time. The Brightwell life-boat quickly went to their...
A Steamer (3)
FEBRUARY 4TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. A steamer which had been blown up by a mine was found sunk by the stern, but the survivors of her crew had already been picked up by other vessels which were in the neighbourhood. Throughout this...
Portrait of a Coxswain
Coxswain George Ernest Ellis is seen in the photograph. He has been coxswain of the Clacton-on-Sea life-boat since 26th December, 1953, and previously served as second coxswain from October, 1945, until his appointment as coxswain. He joined... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Leading a Double Life
Whatever the weather, day or night, when the distress call comes, RNLI crew members drop everything and race for their lifeboats. Usually, the only full time member of a crew is the mechanic at all-weather stations and most lifeboat men and...
Category: Articles
A Meteor Aeroplane (2)
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, Aberyst- wyth, Cardiganshire, Barmouth, Meri- onethshire, and Pwllheli, Caernarvon- shire.
At 3.19 in the afternoon of the 5th of May, 1952, the Fishguard coast- guard telephoned to the Fishguard...
Ellie Park
— The schooner Ellie Park of Barrow, bound from the Dee to Red Bay in the north of Ireland encountered very heavy weather and when trying to make port had her sails blown away in a heavy squall.
The anchor was run out, but...
A Rubber Dinghy
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.6 in the afternoon of the 5th of July, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a rubber dinghy with children on board was adrift one mile off Jaywick, and the life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched at half-past...
A Sailing Boat
Broughty Ferry, Angus.—At noon on the 23rd of September, 1956, the Dun- dee harbour police reported that a small sailing boat with two men on board was aground on Naughton sand- bank to the west of Tay Bridge. At 12.35 the life-boat Mono,...
A Sailing Dinghy
Margate, Kent. At 5.34 on the after- noon of 6th April, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing dinghy was being carried out to sea east of Longnose buoy. A moderate south-west wind was blowing with a slight...
A Rubber Dinghy.
Hartlepool, Co. Durham.—At 11.19 on the morning of the 26th of July, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that three people were drifting out to sea off Crindon Dene in a rubber dinghy.
The life-boat The Princess Royal (Civil...