LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Dinghy (3)
TWO RESCUED Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. At 5.12 p.m. on 18th August, 1965, the harbour office reported that a boat had capsized behind the west pier. The life-boat Dunleary II went out at 5.20 in a gentle westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The...
Nusakan
Fenit, Co. Kerry. At 9.50 on the morning of the 31st of December, 1960, the honorary secretary was informed that the motor vessel Nusakan of Rotterdam, which was at anchor in Tralee Bay, had asked for the life-boat to take off a seriously...
Fishing Vessels
LOCAL FISHING FLEET ESCORTED TO HARBOUR Thurso, Caithness-shire. At 4.30 on the afternoon of the 7th February, 1962, the honorary secretary decided that because of the bad weather conditions the life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No. 31)...
Helen
TOOK OVER TOW Salcombe, Devon. At 11.20 a.m. on 4th April, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was in tow of a steam ship two miles south of Bolt Head and the life-boat was asked to take over the tow. There was a...
A Dinghy (5)
Mudeford, Hampshire. At 6.45 p.m.
on 23rd July, 1964, the honorary secretary's son learned that someone was clinging to a dinghy and calling for heJp.
At 6.47 the inshore rescue boat launched in 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
Aberdovey's Lifeboat Named
Aberdovey's lifeboat named Aberdovey's Atlantic 75 lifeboat was officially named on Saturday, 16 October at the lifeboat station. The new lifeboat has been generously funded by an appeal to the people of Sandwell in the West Midlands... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Institution's Machinery Shop
As a result of the stoppage of the building of life-boats, the Institution’s own machinery shop, in its depot at Boreham Wood, Herts, which overhauled and repaired its engines, and made all the machinery for motor life-boats except the...
Category: Articles
Reliance
APRIL 22ND. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
During the morning eight of the local fishing boats were at sea. A strong N.W. gale was blowing, with a rough sea.
The boats were running for the shore, when at 10 A.M....