LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Three Royal Air Force Aeroplanes (1)
Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and Walton and Frinton, Essex.—8th August, 1939. A message had been received from the Colchester Air Observers' Post, through the coastguard, that three Royal Air Force aeroplanes had crashed into the sea, seven or...
Irish Eyes Are Smiling
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Category: Articles
A Powered 25ft Pleasure Craft
Family brought ashore ON THE EVENING OF August bank holiday Monday, August 25, 1986, the week of Hurricane Charlie, the honorary secretary of Weymouth lifeboat received a call from the coastguard to say that a family was marooned on their...
3. a Sail Past of the Inshore Lifeboats.
3. A sail past of the inshore lifeboats. Photo Robin Sharp. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fishery Protection Cruiser Freya
Wick, Caithness-shire. At 8.30 on the morning of the 9th of January, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen off Helman Head, and ten minutes later more flares were seen six miles east of Clythness...
A Dinghy (7)
Eastbourne, Sussex - At 4 p.m. on 29th May, 1966, when the IRB was on exercise, a capsized dinghy was sighted.
Her crew of two were in the water and appeared to be in difficulties. There was a fresh easterly wind and a...
List of the Rewards for Saving Life from Wrecks, Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FOR SAVING LIFE FROM WRECKS, VOTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION TO THE CREWS OF ITS LIFE-BOATS, TO SHORE AND FISHING-BOATS' CHEWS, AND OTHER PERSONS, FROM THE 1ST JANUARY TO THE 31ST DECEMBER, 1870.
JAN....
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A Speed Boat (1)
TWO LIFE-BOAT MEN INJURED Falmouth, Cornwall. At 11.53 p.m.
on 7th August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a speed boat with three people on board was missing. The boat had last been seen twelve miles south of Falmouth....
A Yacht (4)
SUFFERING FROM EXPOSURE Moelfre, Anglesey. At 3.20 p.m. on ist August, 1965, the coastguard reported that a yacht had been dismasted two miles north-east of Moelfre Island and at 3.27 the life-boat Watkin Williams was launched with the...
A Sailing Dinghy
Holyhead, Anglesey. At 4.9 on the afternoon of the 24th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secre- tary that a sailing dinghy had capsized two miles north-west of Penrhos beach and that her crew of two were clingingto her....