LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cover Picture
from Portsmouth lifeboat Crew member Paul Redmond cares for a four-year-old boy aboard the Atlantic 21 class lifeboat City of Portsmouth during a service on 2 October 1994. A full report of the service appears on page... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
H.M. Minesweeper Susette
DEC. 8TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 5.30 P.M. a message was received that H.M. Minesweeper Susette had gone aground on North Beach and was making signals of distress A whole S.S.E. gale was blowing and she had missed the...
An Aeroplane (113)
AUGUST 2 1ST. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At 6.24 P.M. the R.A.F. asked for the help of the life-boat to search for an aeroplane off Porthysgaden, and the motor life-boat M.O.Y.E. was launched at 6.51 P.M. A light westerly breeze was...
A Life-Boat Cafe.
In May the Harrogate'Ladies" Life-boat Guild ran a life-boat cafe for a week.
An empty shop was got for nothing. A decorator decorated it free of cost. The electric and gas companies lent cookers. The corporation...
Category: Articles
White water grafting
Our flood rescue team volunteers will travel anywhere in the world to prevent tragedies in flood disasters – but how do you train for lifesaving in such extreme conditions?
With a heave and an...
Category: Articles
SPECIAL DELIVERY
WHITBY MEMORIES
I’ve just read the article ‘Happy birthday, Frammy!’ (Lifeboat, summer 2018). I was born at Whitby in the
1920s and one of my first recollections is watching the crew of the lifeboat trying to...
Category: Articles
IRB Launches North-West District
Rescues by IRBs in August were carried out by the following stations: Moelfre, Anglesey - At 4.55 p.m. on 8th August, 1966, a small boat was reported drifting out to sea off Moelfre island. The IRB was launched at 5 o'clock in a moderate...
Category: Services
Unity
SKEGNESS.—A signal of distress was displayed in the fore-rigging of the sloop Unity, of Boston, bound from Lynn for Sunderland with a cargo of wheat, on the morning of the 25th October, during a fresh N. breeze with snow-squalls and a heavy...
Escape
HARTLEPOOL.—On the 28th November, at about 1.50 A.M., the ketch Escape, of Goole, was observed making for Hartlepool, and showing signals of distress.
The sea being very high, the No. 3 Lifeboat John Clay Barlow put off and...
Mary Stevens
APPLEDORE, NORTH DEVON.—At about 9.50 A.M. on the 8th March a dismasted vessel was seen in the Bay, driving towards the North Tail Sand. A strong W.S.W. wind was blowing, accompanied by a heavy ground sea. In reply to her signals of distress...