LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht
Southwold, Suffolk. At 11.35 a.m.
on 2nd September, 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had been dismasted approximately one mile offshore and was being blown out to sea. At 11.40 the...
A Dinghy
Fowey, Cornwall - At 4.24 p.m. on 19th September, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a dinghy had capsized one mile south of the entrance to Fowey harbour.
The life-boat Deneys Reitz slipped her...
Brilliant
BTTE, SUSSEX. The Mary Stanford Lifebout was launched at 2 A.M. on the 21st May, in reply to signals of distress shown by a vessel which proved to be the schooner Brilliant, of Fowey, bound from Antwerp to Plymouth, with a cargo of...
Cover Picture
Just seconds after launching, the crew of Shoreham Harbour lifeboat, the 42ft Watson Dorothy and Philip Constant, raise the radar scanner anil radio aerials which are folded back while the boat is in her boathouse.
Dorothy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Through the Good Offices
Through the good offices of Terry Ferbrache, manager of Fletchersports, a section of the Royal Marines from Plymouth presented a memorable evening of music at a dance organised by the Guernsey ladies' guild. During the evening the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Picking Up Hospital Cases Is One of the Many Duties Undertaken By Life-Boats
Picking up hospital cases is one of the many duties undertaken by life-boats. Here a seaman from the Esso tanker s.s. Canterbury, who was suffering from acute appendicitis, is being lowered to the Valentia life-boat from Kerry,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Soft Wings
Falmouth, Cornwall. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 6th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that a fishing boat was burn- ing an orange smoke signal south-east of St. Anthony Head. The life-boat Crawford and...
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 7.15 on the evening of the 1st August, 1961, the police informed the honorary secretary that a man had fallen over the cliff at Monkstone beach. Five minutes later the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched on a...
Boats
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 10th of May, 1959, the assistant harbour master told the honorary secretary that a small boat fitted with an outboard motor had capsized outside the harbour. At...
Santa Maria
Newhaven, Sussex. At 6.50 on the evening of the 12th of July, 1959, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a message from the police at Brighton that a small yacht was in difficulties close inshore off Rotting- dean. At seven...