LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pennan
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. — At 9.50 on the night of the 29th of August, 1950, a message was received that the motorfishing vessel Pennan, of Fraserburgh, was on a rock near the western entrance to Mallaig harbour. Ten minutes later the...
Longship and Life-Boat
This copy of a Viking ship, the Hugin, came from Denmark to Broadstairs at the beginning of the summer to commemorate the landing of Hengist and Horsa. She was taken over by the Daily Mail, and on her visits to other towns made collections... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Motor Fishing Vessels
Peterhead, Aberdeenshire. At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 4th of April, 1958, the life-boat Julia Park Barry of Glasgow was launched in a rough sea, with a moderate east-north-easterly gale blowing and an ebb tide. She escorted five motor...
The Codling Bank Lightvessel
SON HAD DIED Wicklow. On I5th November, 1964, the inspector of the Irish Lights Office told the coxswain that the son of the master of the Codling Bank lightvessel had just died and the master had asked to be brought ashore. The sea was...
The S.S. Sandstar
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. On the evening of the 7th of January, 1959, thepilot cutter Leader took a doctor out to the s.s. Sandstar in Yarmouth Roads to attend an injured seaman. The doctor diagnosed a compound fracture of the left...
Rnli (Edenbridge) Big Band Concert
Edenbridge Branch RNLI are presenting an evening of the at the NEW VICTORIA THEATRE Wilton Road, London SW1 FEATURING - * Syd Lawrence and his Orchestra * The Chris Barber Band * The Band of HM Royal Marines School of Music, Deal (Director...
Category: Advertisement
The Modern Lifeboat Exhibition
A great success, particularly with its many young visitors: that was the verdict on the Modern Lifeboat exhibition held from February 21 to April 21 at the South Kensington Science Museum, London. School parties, more than 700 of them, came...
Category: Articles
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A rescue party waits to take an injured man from aboard the Teignmouth lifeboat to hospital. The man had fallen down cliffs on 18 March at Ansley's Cove in Torquay and suffered a broken ankle. He was carried a further 30ft to the base of...
Family affair
Newbiggin lifeboat had a call out with a twist on 15 November 2010, as two members of the crew found themselves rescuing some familiar faces. Two men in the traditional fishing coble Crystal Sea called Humber Coastguard at 10.40am, reporting...
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MAY 18TH. - GALWAY BAY. During the afternoon an urgent request for the help of the life-boat was received from a doctor to take him to a serious pneumonia case on Inisheer Island. No other boat was available, and at 4.50 the motor life-boat...