LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Seabreeze
THREE GIRLS LANDED FROM GROUNDED CRUISER Poole, Dorset. At 11.50 on the night of Saturday the 31st August, 1963, the honorary secretary received a telephone message from Poole police that a small cabin cruiser had gone ashore off Brownsea...
R.N.L.I. and R.A.F. Link
A plaque presented to the Appledore life-boat station by R.A.F. Chivenor, Devon, has led to a reciprocal presentation by the life-boat station. The plaques record the close co-operation between the two establishments on sea survival...
Category: Awards
Mo-Jo, of New Quay
New Quay, Cardiganshire - At 6.10 p.m. on 29th August, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties three to four miles west of New Quay head. The IRB was launched at 6.25 in a fresh north easterly breeze...
Relief Fleet - Atlantic 75 Susan Peacock
Susan Peacock, the first of the new Atlantic 75s, is put through her paces shortly before her naming ceremony. - View image in PDF
The new 75', a direct development of the Atlantic 21 , will gradually replace the 21 .. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboats Will Always Launch
Lifeboats will always launch, whatever the weather, but one way of reducing the calls on the service is to identify the reasons for distress calls and to work towards preventing those circumstances from occurring in the first place. This is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Happier Time:
Happier time: Rear Admiral W. J. Graham, Director of the RNLI, is pictured with some of the parents of the children who died at Land's End in 1985, after the handing over of a cheque for £52,000 in the boys' memory.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Salcombe
SALCOMBE, DEVON On the 4th December, 1943, the Salcombe life-boat rescued the crew of eleven of the Admiralty salvage craft L.C.18.
COXSWAIN EDWIN WILLIAM DISTIN was awarded the bronze medal,.
Category: Medals
Scotland's Year.
1942 was Scotland's year. Scottish life-boatmen rescued 357 of the 596 lives, and the two stations of Great Britain and Ireland which rescued most lives were Peterhead, with 135, and Campbeltown with 74. Scotland also won 18 of the 38...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (58)
JULY 1ST. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reporteddown in the sea, but the Buckie life-boat reached the position to find that an R.A.F. rescue launch had picked up the body of an...
Ellen Beatrice
At half an hour after mid- night on the 14th November, in reply to signals of distress shown from the schooner Ellen Beatrice, of Aberystwith, bound from Swansea to Dover, the Life-boat Wolver- hampt&n launched from its station, and...