LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Dinghy
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 4.12 on the afternoon of the 31st of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the hon- orary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized about a mile and a half off Chandlers Corner, Lancing, and that her crew were...
Yesterday: Norman Clark Launches from Her Carriage on a Bleak Day With Snow on the Ground and Dusting 'The Law' Rising Majestically Above the Town Lifeboat Crew And
Yesterday: Norman Clark launches from her carriage on a bleak day with snow on the ground and dusting 'The Law', rising majestically above the town. Lifeboat crew and shore helpers would have come mostly from fishing... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A New Station on the West of Scotland. Port Askaig, Isle of Islay, Argyllshire
Port Askaig, Isle of Islay, Argyllshire.
LAST year a new life-boat station was established on the West of Scotland, at Port Askaig, Isle of Islay, Argyllshire.
The self-righting motor life-boat Frederick...
Category: Inaugurations
A Small Boat Named Mizpah
On the 15th August a youth was left in charge of a small boat called the Mizpah. He pushed off from the shore, but in doing so lost one of the oars, and in the pre- vailing gale quickly drifted out to sea.
He was seen...
Hoylake's Rother Class Lifeboat Mary Gabriel Stands By the Coaster Nanna As a Fire-Tug Fights the Fire
Hoylake's Rother class lifeboat Mary Gabriel stands by the coaster Nanna as a fire-tug fights the fire which led to the evacuation of her eight-man crew. - View image in PDF
(Photo Mercury Press Agency). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Motor Boat
THE COASTGUARD informed New Quay honorary secretary at 1740 on July 30, 1974, that a small motor boat had been seen drifting towards the rocks about half a mile north of Trwyn-Croi, some four miles south of the station. Three minutes later...
A Fishing Boat
Fishing party DUNGENESS LIFEBOAT, the 37ft 6in Rother Alice Upjohn, had launched on exercise on Thursday March 8 and was close to her station when, at 1700, two local fishermen on shore were seen waving. Second Coxswain Peter Thomas, in...
Past and Present
68 years ago — From THE LIFEBOAT of 1928 With the recent success of the RNLI resource packs 'Launch!' and 'Lifeboats' (see feature below) as part of the youth promotion campaign, it is interesting to look back and see what...
Category: Articles
A Steamer (3)
Cromer No. 2, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—14th February, 1938.
A steamer had foundered after striking the Haisborough Sands, but her crew was rescued by the Gorleston Volunteer life-boat.—Rewards : Cromer,...
A Trawler (1)
Longhope, Orkneys 16th March.
A trawler was wrecked at Hoy Island, but the Stromness life-boat rescued the crew.—Rewards, £11 6s. 6d.
(An account of the rescue is on the next page.).