LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Invermore
AUGUST 27TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 8.45 A.M. a message was received from the coast watchers at Greenore Point that a vessel had grounded on the Splaugh Rock. A light westerly breeze was blowing and the sea was...
Recovery position
Sunderland’s Atlantic 85 Wolseley is shown being recovered by davit on 15 November 2008. Her shout turned out to be a false alarm with good intent. A member of the public had reported a fishing boat in difficulty to the Coastguard but when...
Category: Articles
Sealife
DIVE IN FOR A SPLASHING GREAT TIME RNLI supporters are usually too concerned with events on the sea's surface to wonder about whotjfalit be happening down below the waves.
Exploring the magical world fTenwnh the surface...
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Navena
Scarborough lifeboat, the 37ft Oakley Amelia, under the command of Coxswain Ian Firman, setting off soon after 1100 on January 26, 1984, to help the Fleetwood trawler Navena, which was making water and listing about nine miles north east of...
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Exmouth: On Sunday June 12 Exmouth D class inflatable lifeboat, manned by Helmsman Clive Harris and Crew Member Christopher Douglas, launched to help a 14-year-old boy cut off by the tide on the rocks at Orcombe Point. Helmsman Harris first...
A Naval Trawler Saved
A vellum has also been awarded to Second-coxswain F. Upton, of Walmer, who, at great risk, went on board a naval trawler from the life-boat when the trawler was labouring in heavy seas close to the Goodwins. She fell over so far that the...
Category: Articles
Drifter
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At half past four in the afternoon of. the 18th of May, 1949, a resident of Leigh reported that a yacht had capsized about two miles off Leigh and that a man was clinging to her. The life-boat Greater London, Civil...
A Yacht
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 3.35 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1957, the Foreland coastguard tele- phoned that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties three miles south-east of Foreland. At 3.45 the life-boat Jesse Lumb was...
Service to St.Margarite
Service to St Margarite: On the evening of December 22. 1979. Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's 44ft Waveney lifeboat Kliami rescued the crew of two of the fishing vessel St Margarite aground on Scrohy Sands in a strong north-easterly...
Category: Services
Ilfracombe Life-Boatmen
At the naming ceremony of the Rosabella.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs