LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Queen Alexandra
ENGINE FAILED Workington, Cumberland. At 6.3 a.m. on 2nd November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen one mile off Workington.
There was a gentle north-easterly breeze with a...
Blue Marlin (1)
At 3.32 p.m. on 3Oth August, 1966, the motor yacht Blue Marlin was seen drifting two miles south of Chichester. At 3.50 the life-boat Canadian Pacific was launched ina rough sea and a south westerly wind. It was three and a half hours after...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire - At 3.1 p.m.
on I3th August, 1966, information was received that a man had fallen over the cliffs at Monkstone Point. At 3.18 the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched with a punt in tow. There was...
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Sundcrland, Co. Durham - At 12.47 p.m. on 4th June, 1967, news was received that a motor fishing vessel two to three miles off Sunderland was flying distress signals. At 1.6 the life-boat William Myers and Sarah Jane Myers was launched in a...
Snark
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At 4.10 p.m. on iyth June, 1967, a message was received that the yacht Snark had been swept on to Gunfleet sands following engine trouble. The life-boat Sir Godfrey Baring was launched at 4.25 in a moderate east north...
Top Box?
A collection box filled by patrons and staff of The Masons Arms pub in Cilgerran, Wales has been dubbed 'top box' by Cardigan branch - every three to four weeks the box secretary is on standby for a call to the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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FEBRUARY 17TH. - SHERINGHAM, AND WELLS, NORFOLK. Three airmen had baled out of an American Liberator aeroplane which later crashed on fire. The Wells lifeboat searched in the morning but found nothing, and after a parachute had been reported...
A clearer picture
The RNLI’s Wreck Chart of the British Isles for 1854 (excerpt shown left) states: ‘Loss of life (as far as can be ascertained) 1,549.’ Two years earlier, the Lifeboat admitted that: ‘No complete record of shipwrecks is kept …’ but the quoted...
Category: Articles
Welcome
Not a dry eye in the boathouse
Lifeboats mean a lot to our volunteers. In this issue we join the emotional Wicklow crew, saying farewell to the last Tyne class lifeboat in the fleet (page 18). It’s time for the much-loved...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Transporting Carriage. (With Tipping's Wheelplates.)
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
Category: Articles