LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ramrod
Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 4.1 p.m. on 5th June, 1966, a woman reported a yacht about one and a halfmiles off shore, which appeared to be out of control, with a man hanging over the stern. The life-boat Edian Courtauld was launched at...
University Marine Ltd
Photograph by courtesy of the Evening Argus, Brighton EI1JOV5 On the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inshore Rescue Boats Evinrude motors have to work hard Have to be ready for action all the time, reliable, powerful. And they always are...
Category: Advertisement
Lynx
Stromness, Orkney.—At about 6.10 P.M. on the 16th July, 1939, a message was received from the Broughness coastguard that distress signals had been heard in the Pentland Firth. This was confirmed by a wireless message from a trawler saying...
Robina
Cromarty.—At four o'clock on the morning of the 20th of October, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had run ashore off Arder- sier and needed help. At 5.10 the life-boat James Macfee put out. The sea was rough, a gale...
Seven-Year-Old Neil West
Seven-year-old Neil West, of Ravensheud, proudly displays the "Jiin'/l Fix It" budge and Storm Force certificate he received after appearing on Jimmy Savile's popular BBC television programme. Neil wrote to the programme... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hoylake Lifeboat Mary Gabriel Is Pushed on Her Carriage Before a Launch
Hoylake Lifeboat Mary Gabriel Is Pushed On Her Carriage Before A Launch. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Midge
On the afternoon of the 12th September the Rt. Hon. J. H. Thomas, M.P., Secretary of State for the Dominions, went out in the motor boat Midge, with a friend and two members of his staff, to fish. The engine broke down and the boat began...
A Dinghy
Dover, Kent. At 10.30 p.m. on i6th January, 1965, the police informed the honorary secretary that two men had set out for the Mole in a small dinghy leaving a third man on the beach who was to be picked up after one of the men had been...
Countess, of Lisburne
On the 13th December the smack Countess of Zdsburne, of Aberystwyth, laden with limestone, was observed in a dangerous position on Car- digan Bar, in a heavy ground swell. The life-boat was immediately launched, and, proceeding through the...
Otto, of Moss
On the 26th Jan., when the Norwegian brig Otto, of Moss, was driven ashore at Eastern Green, in. Pen- zance Bay, the Life-boat launched out during a heavy southerly gale oLwind and in a high sea, and succeeded in saving from destruction the...