LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Valentia Life-Boat
A collective letter of thanks, signed by the Secretary of the Royal National Life-beat Institution, Mr. Stirling Whorlow, O.B.E., has been sent to Coxswain John Sugrue and the crew of the Valentia (Co. Kerry) life-boat for their efforts on...
Category: Services
Scale Model of Proposed Sea City Showing the Various Facilities and Amenities the Man-Made Lagoon Would Contain Artificial Islands Linked Together and Bearing Houses
Scale model of proposed sea city, showing the various facilities and amenities. The man-made lagoon would contain artificial islands linked together and bearing houses, shops, offices and other city buildings.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Canoes
Lymington's Atlantic 21 was called out to the rescue of five Sea Scouts and two Scout Leaders when their canoes got into difficulties in very rough conditions on the Solent on 22 August 1992. Although photographs from the air always...
Thetis
During hazy weather on the 14th Sep- tember information was received that a vessel was ashore on the South Steel.
The Life-boat Arthur B. Dawes was launched without loss of time, and, on reaching the position indicated,...
First Event
Although Bexhill-on-Sea has had committees for many years, it was not until last Summer that a membership scheme was launched.
The branch is already 200 strong and its first fundraising event achieved £1,020 at the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Winmarleigh
DOCTOR TAKEN OUT TO TRAWLER Portpatrick, Wigtownshire. At 11.18 on the night of the 7th June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man had been taken ill on board the trawler Winmarleigh of Fleetwood and needed medical...
Front Cover
Relief D class inflatable lifeboat. City of Derby, (D408) is shown crashing through waves at Dunbar where she was on relief duty between February and July 1995.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sangarius
Buckie, Banffshire.—On the afternoon of the 26th January the steam trawler Sangarius, of Aberdeen, signalled to the coastguard for a doctor. A gale was blowing from the S.E., with a heavy swell and snow. At 3.15 P.M.
the...
Taia and Standig
Dover, Kent. At 8.5 p.m. on nth November, 1965, a yacht in Dover harbour was reported to be in danger of capsizing against a Trinity House pilot cutter which had it in tow. The life-boat Southern Africa left her moorings at 8.18 in an...
R. and M. J. Charnley
At 6.45 A.M. on the 23rd February last, during a moderate S.W. wind, a vessel was observed ashore on the Goodwin Sands, and signal-guns were fired by the Gull light-vessel. The Bradford Lifeboat at once went out in tow of the harbour...