LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Jane Ellen, of Aberystwith
At mid- night on the 20th January, during a heavy gale from E.S.E., the schooner Jane Ellen, of Aberystwith, was observed dragging her anchors, in a very dangerous position off this place. The Royal Berkshire life-boat was immediately manned...
"We Have to Go Out - We Don't Have to Come Back."
"Some years ago, when a life-boat was about to be launched in the teeth of a gale, someone said to the coxswain: 'You can't go out in a sea like that—you'll never come back.' The coxswain replied, 'We have to go...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy
MAN, WOMAN AND DOG TAKEN OFF DINGHY Swanage, Dorset. At 3.33 on the afternoon of the 12th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a large yellow rubber dinghy was drifting out to sea one mile southsouth- east of...
The Present Lynmouth Life-Boat
The life-boat, Prichard Frederick Gainer, is returning from service on the 13th of last July. - View image in PDF
Countisbury Hill can be seen in the background.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Offshore Hits 20,000
The Southampton Boat Show last September saw the RNLI's Offshore membership scheme pass another milestone when member number 20,000 signed up.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Niord
Watchet, Somerset.—llth May. A boat from the s.s. Niord, of Gothenburg, had tried to reach the harbour in a N.E. gale. She got into difficulties, but made Minehead without help.
Later the life-boat put the men back on their...
A Vessel (3)
SEPT. 3RD. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.
A small vessel had been reported flying distress signals, and the life-boat searched a wide area but found nothing. It was learned later that the vessel had been taken in tow by a drifter. -...
A Fishing Boat
JANUARY 15TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
A fishing boat had been reportedin distress, with a trawler standing by, but the life-boat arrived to find the trawler gone and no one on board the fishing boat. It was learned later...
An Aeroplane (42)
APRIL 7TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea and later a red rocket was seen, but on receiving a wireless signal that none of our aeroplanes was missing the life-boat returned. -...
H.M.S. Astronomer
JUNE. 1ST, WICK. CAITHNESS-SHIRE.
An explosion had been heard on board H.M.S. Astronomer, thirty miles away, but the life-boat found nothing, and it was learnt later that the survivors had been picked up by trawlers. -...