LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Dover, Kent. At 11.30 on the night of the 19th of November, 1959, Lloyd's agent informed the honorary secretary that a lighter had broken adrift from the Dutch tug Titan. At 11.59 the life- boat Southern Africa left her moorings in a...

DEC. 10TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK, CAISTER, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.

At 8.20 P.M. the coastguard reported that the steamer Willowpool, of Hartlepool,was sending out S.O.S. signals fourteen miles...

COXSWAIN GEORGE TAYLOR, of Newbiggin, was also the holder of a silver medal awarded for an outstanding service during the last war. This was the rescue in a 32-feet life-boat of the light surf type of eleven men from the Belgian motor vessel...

BLOWN OUT TO SEA At 2.34 p.m. on the 24th November, 1963, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a small boat with a crew of three was being blown out to sea. There was a near gale from the south-southwest with a rough sea. The tide was...

Below, bottom picture.The fastest lifeboat at the conference was the Dutch rigid inflatable Johannes Frederic class. This 14.4m (47ft) rigid inflatable with an aluminium hull is capable of 36 knots, almost the fastest lifeboat at the... - View image in PDF

Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At midnight on the 5th of August, 1952, the wife of a man, who had gone fishing in his motor boat Rapid with two others at 7.0 that morning, telephoned that they should have returned at 7.0 in the evening. There was a...

TWO BOYS SAVED At 2.55 p.m. on I2th November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two boys in army uniform appeared to be in difficulties in a boat about two hundred and fifty yards off Cleethorpes. The anchor cable of...

ILFRACOMBE.—On the morning of the 29th December, the Go-Operator No. 2 Life-boat was launched, a message having been received at about half-past nine stating that a vessel, which proved to be the barque Catarina, of Savona, was in distress...