LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Surprise, Surprise!
Julie Unite from Perth got the shock of her life earlier this year when she found out that she had won first prize in the 1999 RNLI National Car Draw.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Motor Launch
On the morning of the 23rd December, Coxswain Cook was called up by a messenger, who reported that a motor launch was on the rocks near the Lower Sandgate Road. The crew of the Life-boat were assembled and the boat proceeded to the...
Provider
DECEMBER 17TH. - NEWBIGGIN, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 10.30 in the morning the coastguard reported that the sea was rising and that the coble Provider was still at sea. At 11.15 the motor life-boat Augustus and Laura was launched....
Sinking speed boat
7 July: Tower, London Lifeboat crew members saved four lives with minutes to spare when a speedboat sank on the Thames just south of the Millennium Bridge. Unable to stop the water rushing in, the group made an...
Category: Articles
John Soyle
On the 8th September the schooner John Soyle, of Chester, was reported to haye sank on Cartmell Wharf, Morecambe Bay, during a strong W.N.W, gale and a heavy sea. At 11.45 A.M. the William Krkett Life-boat went to her assistance, and found...
A Dinghy (5)
Largs, Ayrshire. At 10.5 p.m. on July, 1965, the police reported that a small dinghy with three persons on board was in difficulties a mile and a half south-west of the South Bay. At 10.17 the IRB launched in a strong easterly breeze and...
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Life-boat 70-002 at the Mumbles - At 4.15 p.m. on 23rd April, 1967, while rounding Mumbles Head on exercise, the coxswain of the life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie noticed four people cut off by the tide on Lighthouse Island. There was a light...
Marshall
BOULMER.—A boat, containing four men, being observed off Boulmer during a strong W.N.W. wind and a high sea on the 4th March, the Life-boat Robin Hood of Nottingham put off to her assistance at 7 A.M., and brought ashore the boat and the...
A Motor Launch (1)
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire.—At 5.58 on the evening of the 14th of July, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a motor launch needed help between Sully Island and Lavernock Point. At 6.50 the life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was launched in a...
Devonbrook
SICK MAN TAKEN OFF MOTOR VESSEL Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 12.45 early on the morning of the 2nd January, 1962, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that he had received a message from the motor vessel Devonbrook of London, which was...