LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Speed Boat (2)
Ilfracombe, North Devon. At 12.30 p.m. on 20th August, 1965, a speed boat was observed broken down with three men on board off Morte Point. Distress flares had been fired and at 12.52 the life-boat Robert and Phemia Brown was launched in a...
A Motor Boat (2)
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 5.25 p.m. on 2nd July, 1965, a small motor boat was seen to be in difficulties with engine trouble just inside the harbour mouth. At 5.32 the IRB launched in a gentle north-westerly breeze and slight sea. She...
Two Dinghies (1)
At 2.12 p.m. on 24th June, 1967, two small boats were reported in difficulties off Selsey Bill. The larger of the two boats was trying to help the smaller one, a 10- foot fibre glass dinghy, with a crew of two The life-boat Canadian Pacific...
A Cabin Cruiser (1)
Tynemouth, Northumberland - At 5.14 p.m. on 29th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small cabin cruiser was in difficulties one and a half miles from the Tyne and half a mile off Marsden. The life-boat...
Skylark
DEC. 3RD. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 10.30 A.M. the coastguard reported that a boat a few hundred yards from the Shoreham gas works, on a lee shore, appeared to have hoisted a coat as a distress signal. A moderate S.W. breeze was blowing...
On June 13 1982 Halesowen Branch
On June 13, 1982, Halesowen branch held its second Fun Gala for the 12 primary and junior Stourbridge schools whose children come for their swimming lessons to Mrs Jean Hadley (centre), the branch honorary secretary. It was indeed fun, with... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (13)
JULY 17TH. - CLACTON-ON-SEA, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A message had been received from the coasttake guard that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea between Walton pier and Gunfleet Lighthouse and that a man had come down from it by...
Holiday Spirit
A local club’s sailing session made it a busy Valentine’s day for Aberystwyth lifeboat crew. The B class Spirit of Friendship was launched when a dinghy was seen capsizing several times, with her two-person crew having more and more trouble...
Category: Articles
Beach volunteers save life
RNLI lifeguards on Fistral Beach, Cornwall, volunteered to carry out weekend patrols without pay last Winter. It was a good job they were there on 7 November 2010, when a bodyboard instructor carried out a headcount after leaving the water –...
Category: Articles
A Hint to Parents
It will never be said of my children (the girls' any more than the boys), in case of a boat capsizing, " none of the party could swim ;" — the dreary and shameful announcement which we see in the newspaper reports of the...
Category: Articles