LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Bar Lightvessel
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 9.35 on the morning of the 3rd of January, 1957, the marine surveyor of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board telephoned to say that a member of the crew of the Bar lightvessel had been suddenly taken ill. As the...
Miss Beck
HAYLE, CORNWALL.—While the threemasted schooner Miss Beck, of and from Carnarvon for London with slate, was taking the bar on the 5th February in tow of a steam-tug, the tow-rope parted and the vessel was driven ashore on the beach at the...
Pains-Wessex Schermuly
A stormy sea can very quickly become a cruel sea to a vessel in distress.
Crashing waves prevent rescue vessels getting alongside. And poor visibility can make yards seem like miles.
With the Pains-Wessex...
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Galway Bay - Ireland Division
Galway Bay - Ireland Division Following a number of search and rescue incidents in Galway Bay, the RNLI announced that an Atlantic 21 lifeboat would be allocated to Galway on a year's evaluation.
When the newly trained... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Inshore Lifeboats: (Below) West Bay Ladies from Dunoon Who Raised the Money to Provide the New D Class Ilb at St.Abbs Were Honoured Guests at Her Handing Over Cere
Inshore lifeboats: (below) West Bay Ladies from Dunoon, who raised the money to provide the new D class ILB at St Abbs, were honoured guests at her handing over ceremony on June 26, 1976 and are seen here with members of the crew. (Below,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Big Lump of Sea Rising Over the Bow of the Motor Barge Roino Which Ran Aground Off Margate on 14th April, 1967
A big lump of sea rising over the bow of the motor barge Roino which ran aground off Margate on 14th April, 1967. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
May
Launches 53. Lives rescued 27.
MAY 1ST. - CROMARTY. At 7.40 A.M. a message was received from the Cromarty coastguard that two airmen had been seen in the sea off Brora, and at 8.20 A.M. the motor life-boat James Macfee was...
Category: Services
Rescue By Thirteen-Year-Old Boy
Ox the afternoon of Saturday, the 17th of November. 1956, a man who lived at Portland in Dorset. Mr. H.
W. Wilkinson, went out in his 20-feet motor boat Hilda Mari/ from Castletown and made for Portland Bill, where he...
Category: Articles
Our Life-Boat Work
IF we could always have OUR own way in this world, we would doubtless make all work easy, all work pleasant, all work safe; we would fain do good to others, not only without risk of injury to our- selves, "but even without serious...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services March April and May 1985
Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: April 8, 9,11 and May 29 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic21: March 22, April 14 (twice), 20, 25, May 5 (twice) and 9 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class inflatable: May 11 and 30 Aith, Shetland 52ft Barnett: May 9 Aldeburgh,...
Category: Services