LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Latifa
Hurricane tow AT ABOUT 1515 on Thursday, October 14, 1976, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Weymouth lifeboat station that the 52-ton yacht Latifa had requested assistance off Portland Bill. She had damaged sails, a shattered...
Awards to Coxswains Crews and Shore Helpers
The following coxswains, members of lifeboat creii's and shore helpers were awarded certificates of sen-ice on their retirement and, in addition.
those entitled to them bv the Institution's regulations, were awarded...
Category: Awards
Going for cold
Vancouver’s icy slopes are a long way from the Isle of Man but a world-class snowboarder won’t forget home when she competes at the Winter Olympics
Zoe Gillings is full of anticipation as she waits for the start gate to...
Category: Articles
A Yacht
Lasting the night During the night of 2 July, a lone yachtsman faced force 10 winds and 10-11m waves, 40 miles off the coast of Donegal. The experienced sailor harnessed himself to the yacht as it capsized repeatedly. In the early hours of...
The Aldeburgh Life-Boat the Alfred and Patience Gottwald Which Is a 42-Foot Beach Type Being Launched Last Summer the Smaller Picture Which Was Taken In the Sprin
The Aldeburgh life-boat The Alfred and Patience Gottwald, which is a 42-foot beach type, being launched last summer. The smaller picture, which was taken in the Spring of last year, shows the same life-boat setting out on an actual... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
M.F.V. Gratitude
MFV sinks MFV GRATITUDE, on passage from Lerwick to Macduff, sent a MAYDAY distress call at 0133 on Sunday April 24 to say that she had struck rock at Sumburgh Head; she was still afloat but needed immediate help. Shetland Coastguard...
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Category: Advertisement
The Dramatic Moment As Coxswain Hewitt Clark Brings Soldian
The dramatic moment as Coxswain Hewitt Clark brings Soldian alongside the sinking Boy Andrew to snatch the survivors to safety. The helicopter winchman is about to make his leap for the lifeboat in this photograph — he slipped and fell... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Overdue at Depth
Longhope’s Tamar class lifeboat Helen Comrie was called on 11 August to help search for a missing diver after his support vessel reported him overdue.
The lifeboat’s Deputy Second Coxswain took command of the dive boat...
Category: Articles
Guernsey Coast
MOTOR VESSEL REFLOATED Ramsgate, Kent.—At about 7.20 in the morning of the 27th of October, 1947, the coastguard reported that the motor vessel Guernsey Coast, of London, was ashore five miles north-east of North Foreland with her steering...