LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A. Andess
ENGINE FAILED At 5.50 p.m. on 2nd August, 1964, the harbour pilots informed the coxswain that the cabin cruiser A. Andess had radioed for assistance from a position 2| miles north of Hartlepool. There was a light north-easterly breeze with a...
Crescent Brand
BARGE WAS TOWED At 2.30 p.m. on 8th November, 1964, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a boat had fired a red flare while in a choppy sea on the Outer Carrs. At 2.40, three hours before high water, the lifeboat Richard Ashley was...
Marriage Boat
After Mr. Robert Jefford, a member of the IRB crew at Lyme Regis, and Miss Estelle Butler, the youngest member of the local ladies' life-boat guild, were married at Uplyme Parish Church, Lyme Regis, on 8th October, 1967, the couple left...
Category: Branches
The Barges Cabby and Colluna
MCH. 15TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 6.12 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that two barges were in need of help to the east of the coastguard station. A moderate N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat...
Excel
KINGSDOWNE.—The coxswain of the Life-boat, while on the beach, on the morning of the 9th April, saw a schooner run on the South Sand Head of the Goodwin Sands. He at once summoned the crew of the Life-boat Charles Hargrave, and at 6.15 the...
Nordale
NOVEMBER 23RD. - BARROW, LANCASHIRE. At 10.40 in the morning the Walney coastguard telephoned that a steam trawler was aground about one and a half miles W.S.W. of the coastguard station, and at 10.50 A.M. the motor life-boat N.T. was...
Safe Return
SEPTEMBER 29TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK. At 8.30 P . M . the owner of the Skibbereen motor fishing boat Safe Return reported that his boat, with a crew of three, was five hours overdue, and the motor lifeboat Shamrock was launched at 9.5 P.M....
Services of Life-Boats
Cullercoats, Northumberland. -— On the 24th August last, a fishing-lugger, belong- ing to Sunderland, having struck on a sunken anchor, became disabled, and drove amongst the rocks oft' Cullercoats Harbour, the wind blowing strong from...
Category: Services
Diamond Dove
Six saved from power boat LymeRegis South West Division The Lyme Regis Atlantic 21 Independent Forester Benevolence rescued six people on 22 May 1988 in a short but difficult service when a small power boat lost engine power and was being...
Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE The 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat stationed at Amble in Northumberland launches into the surf on exercise earlier this year. So far in 1986 there have been 750 services by inflatable lifeboats and .*/- lives saved. While... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs