LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Dinghy (4)
Largs, Ayrshire. At 11.30 a.m. on 23rd May, 1965, the crew of the inshore rescue boat which was on exercise saw a sailing dinghy with two people on board capsize one and a half miles south of the station. The IRB made for the capsized dinghy...
A Fishing Boat
FISHING BOAT TOWED THROUGH ROUGH SEA St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 3.57 on the afternoon of the 27th October, 1962, a message was received from Niton radio station that a fishing boat had broken down with engine trouble seven miles west of...
Life-Boatman Goes Overboard
SHORTLY before noon on the 17th of April, a fishing boat, with two men on board, half a mile off Selsey Bill, was seen from the shore to capsize. A moderate wind was blowing from the south-west, and there was a steep, choppy sea. Within ten...
Category: Services
Lifesavers 60 Years Ago
Lifesavers 60 years ago - the above photograph of St Andrews lifeboat crew was given to Michael Ashley, RNLI regional manager south east, from a lady at a local branch meeting.
St Andrews lifeboat station, Fifeshire,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Eclipse
FISHING VESSEL'S CREW TAKEN OFF ROCKS Lerwick, Shetlands. At 3.52 on the afternoon of the llth September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Serene had sent a radio message that another...
Ynys Lochtyn
New Quay, Cardiganshire. At 2.5 on the afternoon of the 13th of July, 1958, the New Quay coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a message from the Aberystwyth coastguard that the lobster fishing boat Ynys Lochtyn, with a crew of two,...
Nancy
BROADSTAIRS.—A vessel being seen in the offing, with a signal of distress flying, on the 3rd March, the Life-boat temporarily placed here in the absence of the station's own boat, was launched to her assistance about noon. A moderate W.N...
A District Conference
A conference of the branches of the Outer London District was held at the offices of the Institution on March 10th. Commodore the Earl Howe, C.B.E., V.D., P.C., A.D.C., R.N.V.R., deputy chairman of the Institution, presided, supported by Sir...
Category: Meetings
Miss Helen Greenham
Miss Helen Greenham, who died at the age of 79 on 8th January, 1965, was an honorary life governor of the Institution. She had been appointed to this position in December, 1955. Miss Greenham had also actively supported the Wallasey...
Category: Obituaries
The Lifeboat
The lifeboat which now goes out to help fishing boats at Whitby is the 44ft Waveney The White Rose of Yorkshire. The Waveney class lifeboat, introduced from the US Coast Guard in 1964, was the first of the RNLI's 'fast afloat'... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs