LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Siraly II
Rhyl, Flintshire - At 11.1 a.m. on 29th September, 1968, it was learnt that red flares had been sighted twomiles north east of Rhos point. At 11.37 the life-boat Har-Lil was launched in a fresh west north westerly breeze and a rough sea. The...
D.U.K.W.
Blackpool, Lancashire - At 1.45 p.m.
on I9th December, 1966, a D.U.K.W.
used to supply the drilling rig Bedford X was reported to be sinking near the drilling rig. There were four men...
Quiet Waters
REFLOATED Anstruther, Fife. At 5.3 p.m. on ist April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Quiet Waters was ashore off Pittenweem harbour entrance. The lifeboat James and Ruby Jackson was...
Sea Eagle II
SEARCH IN BAY Dungeness, Kent. At 3.10 p.m. on 25th July, 1965, the Lade coastguard reported that a small sailing yacht had capsized off St. Mary's Bay and that a yawl was circling about four miles north-east of Dungeness. At 3.25 the...
P.M.
TOW FOR YACHT IN GALE St. Helier, Jersey. At 5.7 on the afternoon of the 6th August, 1962, the harbour radio station informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was believed to have capsized about two miles south of Demie de Pas lighthouse,...
An Open Motor Boat
Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 4.55 on the afternoon of the 7th of December, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an angler, while fishing from the beach at Rossall Point, had seen a light being flashed from an open motor...
Service to Holland 1:
Service to Holland 1: On September 12. 1980.
the Dutch dredger Holland I was in danger of parting her moorings off Irvine Harbour in a westerly gale. Connel Elizabeth Cargill, Troon's 44ft Waveney lifeboat, launched to...
Category: Services
It's a Small World
Model lifeboats and their builders raise large sums of money for the RNLI each year, and to further the cause an anonymous donor has provided a perpetual trophy in the name of the RNLI which will be awarded to the best model entered for the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fast Lady
Fast first for Brighton's new Atlantic 21 Brighton - South East Division Brighton's new Atlantic 21 Graham Hillier and Tony Cater found herself on service very promptly after arriving at the station on 21 July.
The...
Listings
Operational changes in North East EnglandEvery five years each stretch of the UK and Irish coastlines undergoes a Coast Review. Senior RNLI operational personnel and trustees visit the lifeboat stations and assess whether the right class,...
Category: Articles