LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Training School
The first Coastguard Training School has been opened at Brixham, South Devon. This was made necessary because of the need for intensive training in the use of new rescue aids and techniques..
Category: Articles
R.N.L.B. 44-002
At 1.20 p.m. on ist November, 1966, information was received that the recently built life-boat, provisionally designated R.N.L.B. 44-002, which was on trials from the shipyard, had trouble with one of the engines which was being...
A Fishing Vessel
New Brighton, Cheshire. At 11.45 a.m. on ist August, 1965, the police told the bowman of the life-boat that a fishing vessel was in difficulties in the Rock Channel. At 12.10 p.m. the life-boat Norman B. Corlett proceeded in a strong...
Jenesta
Plymouth, Devon - At 8.50 p.m. on 16th April, 1966, the naval authorities informed the honorary secretary that a red distress signal had been sighted due east of Penlee, near Renny Rocks. It was confirmed that the casualty was a yacht, and...
A Dinghy and Mambo
TWO CASUALTIES At 6.52 p.m. on i5th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing vessel had broken down and was drifting one mile south of St. Albans Head. The life-boat R.L.P.
was launched at...
(Above) Richard Perks, Inspector of Lifeboats for the East Division
(above) Richard Perks, inspector of lifeboats for the East Division was in command for the passage to Aldeburgh from the training centre at Poole.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Admiralty Drifter Ocean Vine
AUGUST 11TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At 1.55 A.M. the coastguard reported a boat in difficulties off Black Rocks, Salt Island. She was flashing a torch. A W.N.W.
gale was blowing, with a nasty, choppy sea,...
Jack Gets the Ball Rolling
Crowds gathered to welcome football legend Jack Charlton and his wife Pat at the opening of the Seahouses (North Sunderland) lifeboat fete on Bank Holiday Monday.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Courrier Du Nord
The Moses life-boat at St. Ives, after repeated attempts with different crews, saved 1 man from the French brig Courrier du Nord, which became a total wreck on St. lyes Ridge.
Georgina and Northern Star
COBLES IN DANGER Flamborough, Yorkshire. At 1.43 p.m. on I3th January, 1965, the coxswain telephoned the honorary secretary that two local fishing cobles were at sea, and as a sudden gale had sprung up from the south-south-east and the...