LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Maida
Dunbar, East Lothian. On the 18th June, 1961, at 8.40 in the morning messages were received from the coast- guard that a yacht in the Forth needed help but had been lost to view from the shore. Various messages were received, but all were...
Swordfish
Coverack, Cornwall - At 6.12 p.m. on 3rd September, 1969, the honorary secretary was told that a red flare had been seen about two miles south of Blackhead. Although the coastguards could not confirm this sighting, the life-boat William...
Kirby
BOAT WAS OVERDUE Walmer, Kent. During the afternoon of igth November, 1963, the coastguard and local boatmen received reports that a local drift net fishing boat was overdue with a strong offshore gale blowing up.
The boat...
A Book for Review
THE first in a series of books which will undoubtedly become standard works on the history of the Cornish fife-boats. Wreck and Rescue Round the Cornish Coast by Cyril Noall and Grahame Farr (D. Bradford Barton, 2is.), is both an admirable...
Category: Articles
A Boat, a Pilot Cutter and Magnet
LIFE-BOAT ESCORT Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 12.2 p.m. on 27th December, 1964, a number of the life-boat crew and helpers at the watch-house saw a red flare being fired by a small boat fishing at the harbour mouth. The life-boat Tynesider...
William and Edwin
YACHT WAS FOUND At 5.18 p.m. on 22nd October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen off Jury's Gap, Dungeness. The sea was moderate with a corresponding south-westerly breeze. It was almost low...
A Dinghy and a Yacht
North Sunderland, Northumberland.
At 12.2 p.m. on 2ist September, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized in Newton Bay and that two people were believed to be on board. At 12.5 the IRB...
Dinas
Sick Russian A RUSSIAN TRAWLER which, having a sick man on board, might need help was reported to the honorary secretary of Bridlington lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1630 on Friday, Sep-tember 3. Later, at 1900, a further message was...
Louisa (1)
^Walton and Frinton's lifeboat in action on a irvice to another yacht on 21 October 1990 sands to the south of the service on the i page.
The lifeboat had been launched at 0413 to i the Sheerness lifeboat, a helicopter...
Holly Phillips Has Been a Crew Member of Poole Lifeboat Since October 1994.
Holly Phillips has been a crew member of Poole lifeboat since October 1994.
Holly's appointment brought the number of serving women crew members to 100 for the first time in the RNLI's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs