LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Inshore Passage
The Inshore Lifeboat Centre at Cowes held its biennial Open Days on 16 and 17 August.
Our photographers braved the holiday atmosphere, the refreshment tent and blazing sunshine to bring you this photo-report..
Category: Articles
Dispatch
HOLY ISLAND.—On the 21st March, at about 11 P.M., signals of distress were seen just beyond the bar. There was a heavy rolling sea, and the night was very dark. The Life-boat Grace Darling was launched, and went out to the vessel, but great...
Freda, Star of Hope and Radiant Morn
The Staithes fishing fleet put out at 5 a.M. on the 20th December in moderate weather.
Later the wind got .up, and by 10.30 A.M. a moderate and increasing N.N.W.
gale was blowing, with a heavy...
A Dramatic Shot of Teesmouth's Tyne Class Lifeboat City of Sheffield
A dramatic shot of Teesmouth's Tyne class lifeboat City of Sheffield during her service to the Swedish vessel Stora Korsnas Link 1 which was on fire with a potentially explosive cargo. A full account of this service which, ironically,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Dunbar, East Lothian. — At eight o'clock on the evening of the 18th of July, 1953, the coastguard rang up the coxswain to say that the police had reported that three people and a dog were cut off by the tide half a mile west of Dunbar....
A Sailing Dinghy
Dungeness, Kent.—At 11.50 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1954, the New Romney police telephoned that a lady at Littlestone had reported that a sailing dinghy, with a crew of two, was being blown seawards off Littlestone. At...
Comet
Barmouth, Merionethshire. — At 8.30 on the evening of the 28th of August, 1951, the police reported that the Tonfanau artillery camp had an- nounced a small fishing boat in distress.
There was one man in her,...
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CUT OFF BY THE TIDE Ramsgate, Kent.—At 12.25 in the afternoon of the 3rd of August, 1947, the police reported that two men had been cut off by the rising tide on a rock off the western undercliff. The motor life-boat Prudential...
Adventure
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—At 7.29 in the evening of the 21st of September, 1949, the coastguard telephoned a message from the Methil police that a boat, drifting three miles off East Wemyss, was making S.O.S. signals on a...
A Fishing Boat
Barmouth, Merionethshire.—At 12.50 on the afternoon of the 9th of July, 1957, the police reported that a fishing boat appeared to be in difficulties off Llwgngwril. The boat was kept under observation from the coastguard look- out by the...