LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Jewel
DRIFTING SLOOP Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 2.55 p.m. on 3ist October, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was firing red flares one mile east of Worthing pier. The sea was choppy with a gentle breeze from the east....
The French Cutter Naia
FRENCH CUTTER ESCORTED INTO HARBOUR Ramsgate, Kent. At 9.38 on the evening of the 1st September, 1962, the east pier watchman informed the coxswain that a yacht was ashore on the Brake sands and was firing distress flares. At ten o'clock...
Club Rescue Launch
New Quay, Cardiganshire - At 3.25 p.m. on 4th August, 1966, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that the yacht club rescue launch was in difficulties off Llanena reef. At 3.45 the life-boat St.
Albans was launched in...
Sea Wolf
Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 11.45 a-m- on 6th October, 1966, the local motor cruiser Sea Wolf reported by R/T that she had lost her rudder and might need assistance. The life-boat Edian Courtauld left her moorings at 12.54 p.m. It was two...
Seruta, of Caernarvon
Beaumaris, Anglesey - At 5 p.m. on 12th November, 1966, it was reported that a distress signal had been flashed from a boat, about one and a half miles north west of Puffin Island. The lifeboat Field Marshall and Mrs. Smuts was launched at 5...
H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught, K.G.
Chairman at the Annual Meeting held at the Mansion House, April, 1917, and President of Life-boat Day, 1917. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hydrovane
Six taken off ON A NIGHT of worsening weather, Clyde Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Islay lifeboat station at 2213 on Sunday September 4, 1983, that the 34ft yacht Hydrovane, on charter, was in trouble in the Sound of Jura.<...
Lough Swilly Lifeboat Crew Inside An MTU
Lough Swilly Lifeboat Crew Inside An Mtu. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Runaway Coast
Runaway Coast sells luxury fabrics and household goods inspired by the Suffolk shoreline.
As a company with strong links to the sea, and the county’s four RNLI lifeboat stations, it has chosen to donate 5% of all sales to...
Category: Articles
Sun Seahorse
SICK MAN TAKEN OFF NORWEGIAN VESSEL IN GALE Moelfre, Anglesey. At 8.54 on the evening of the 14th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Norwegian motor vessel Sun Seahorse had a sick man on board who needed a...