LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Exercise Poolespill
'At 0600 on Friday, October 24, 1975, an oil tanker struck a submerged object off Studland Bay, Dorset, and 200 tons of oil spilled into the sea . . . . Miles of beaches, and marine and bird life, were threatened by what looked like a...
Category: Articles
Motor Life-Boats
IN accordance with our annual custom we give with this month's issue of the Journal a table showing the various motor Life-boats now on the coast, or under construction; and in this connexion we print, by the courtesy of The Times, an...
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
Ferry Saint Malo (1)
Two lifeboats on service as high speed passenger ferry runs on to rocksBoth of Jersey's lifeboats, St Heller's Tyne class Alexander Coutanche and St Catherine's Atlantic rigid inflatable Jessie Eliza, were involved in a service...
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the April, May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 124. Lives rescued 106.
April Meeting.
Blyth, and Newbiggin, Northumberland.
—On the 23rd December, 1938, the Blyth motor life-boat rescued three of the crew of the s.s. Skaru...
Category: Services
The First Life-Boat. The Model of the Original, Built at Tynemouth In 1789, Which Hangs In St. Hilda's Church, South Shields
The First Life-Boat The Model of the Original Built at Tynemouth In 1789 Which Hangs In St Hilda's Church South Shields. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Return-A-Key
HAVE YOU LOST YOUR KEYS? BY USING ONE OF OUR REGISTERED KEY RINGS. YOU COULD HAVE HAD YOUR LOST KEYS RETURNED WITHIN DAYS TREE' SAVES EXPENSE ON CHANGING LOCKS INCREASES SECURITY SAVES INCONVENIENCE FREEPOST DYMCHURCH KENT TN29OBR...
Category: Advertisement
Severe Gale: Faithful Forester Dover's 44' Waveney Lifeboat on Exercise Last September In Winds of Force 9
Severe gale: Faithful Forester, Dover's 44' Waveney lifeboat, on exercise last September in winds of Force 9.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Empty Boat Belonging To The Aberdeen Trawler Bracken Burn
JULY 31ST. - ARBROATH, ANGUS. At 9.30 in the morning a message was received from the coastguard asking that the life-boat should go to a position thirteen miles southeast by east of Arbroath, in answer to a ship’s SOS. The weather was foggy...
Lucy, of Antwep
On the 13th April a barque, which proved to be the Lucy, of Antwerp, was seen to be in distress on the Burnham Flats, five miles and a half from the shore. The Braacaster Lifeboat, the •Joseph and Mary, was launched as soon as horses could...