LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Belgian Yacht Haura
Lifeboatmen transferred to Belgian yacht in gale and heavy seas A joint service by Southwold's Atlantic 21 class lifeboat Quiver and Lowestoft's Tyne Spirit of Lowestoft has won two lifeboatmen framed letters of thanks from the...
The Shipwrights' Exhibition
BY the kindness of the Worshipful Company of Shipwrights, the Life-boat service had a space at the exhibition of ships' models and equipment which the Company held in London from 28th January to 8th February of this...
Category: Articles
The Dredger Foremost
LANDED INJURED MAN Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 1.2 p.m. on i8th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man on board the dredger Foremost that was anchored at No. 5 sea reach buoy had injured his back and was...
The Pyrene Company Ltd
Just as ships on the men emergency of THE PYRENE COMPANY LTD.
9 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.I Victoria 8474 Head Office and works BRENTFORD, MIDDLESEX Canadian Plan*: TORONTO Australian Plant: MELBOURNE in distress know...
Category: Advertisement
ART OF THE SEA
Art can be a really personal and rewarding way to express your love of the coast. So we asked lifelong RNLI supporter and top artist Glyn Macey for his tips on creating maritime masterpieces
‘ When I was 12, our community...
Category: Articles
Feeling the force
Shetland Coastguard contacted Lerwick Lifeboat Operations Manager Malcolm Craigie at around 1.45pm on the afternoon of Saturday 25 October 2008. Two large fishing boats were in trouble in Baltasound, 40 miles north of the station – could the...
Category: Articles
The Hovercraft Princess Margaret
Hovercraft accident AT 1614 on the afternoon of Saturday March 30, 1985, the cross-channel hovercraft, Princess Margaret, radioed to Dover port control that she had collided with the breakwater on entering the harbour. It was cloudy with...
The Coningbeg Lightvessel
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 9.55 P.M. on the llth February, 1939, a telephone message was received that the Goningbeg Light-vessel had signalled a passing steamer that she wanted the life-boat to take ashore a man who was dangerously...
Thanks from the RAF
When an R.A.F. Gnat trainer crashed into the sea—the two pilots ejected from the aircraft before it crashed—on 8th June, 1968, the Holyhead life-boat St. Cybi (Civil Service No. 9) was quick off the mark. Group Captain W....
Category: Correspondence
The Gem, of Skibbereen
OCTOBER 4TH. - BALTIMORE, CO. CORK. While a number of fishing boats were out the weather became stormy and all returned except the Gem, of Skibbereen.
When she was long overdue the relatives of her crew of three asked for...