LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Boat (1)
Torbay, Devon. At 4.48 on the after- noon of the 4th of October, 1959, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report that a boat was in difficulties off Elbury beach at Torbay.
At 5.5 the life-boat Princess...
Reclaim
Ramsgate, Kent. At 9.9 p.m. on loth November, 1965, the coastguard at Deal informed the honorary secretary that the Margate coastguard had observed a vessel burning flares two miles north-east of Foreness Point. The lifeboat Michael and Lily...
Dougals
Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 9.40 a.m.
on yth June, 1966, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the m.v.
Dougals' engine had broken down four miles south of Otter rock and required assistance....
Mercure
Life-boat 70-002, Ullapool, Ross and Cromarty - At 6.2 p.m. on 25th November, 1966, the police told the assistant district inspector, who was in command of the life-boat 70-002, that flashing lights had been sighted in the vicinity of Martin...
Relief - Mersey Class Royal Shipwright
HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, aboard the relief Mersey class lifeboat Royal Shipwright after her naming ceremony at Greenwich. (Photo Jeff Morris). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Below- Delegates from British Virgin Islands
Below- Delegates from British Virgin Islands Search and Rescue (VISAR) study their agenda notes at the conference. - View image in PDF
Photo: Sebastian Studios. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above and Below: the Prototype Tamar Moored Alongside Sennen Cove's Tyne, Norman Saivesen.
Above and below: The prototype Tamar moored alongside Sermen Cove's Tyne, Norman Saivesen. - View image in PDF
at DML. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Back In Time
Southport branch held a 1940s night at a local pub in March which proved to be a great success - raising £350 for lifeboat coffers.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ludwig
Amble, Northumberland.—About 9.55 on the night of the 1st of May, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel had fired a rocket east of the Coquet lightvessel. At 10.15 the life- boat J. W. Archer was launched. There was a slight swell...
A Sailing Cruiser
Appledore, Devon - At noon on 29th September, 1967, while returning from an exercise with the R.A.F., the coxswain of the life-boat Louisa Anne Hawker saw a sailing cruiser ashore in broken water on the North Tail.
There...