LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Helicopter down
10 May: Aberdeen and Peterhead's all-weather lifeboats were called upon when a helicopter carrying oil rig workers crashed into the North Sea. All 14 of the helicopter's passengers and crew made it to the liferafts. Aberdeen lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Fishing Boats (5)
APRIL 25TH. - PORT ERIN, ISLE OF MAN. During the afternoon a strong N.E. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. Three fishing boats were out and at 5 P.M. the motor life-boat Ethel Day Cardwell was launched to their help. Two of the boats...
What happened NEXT?
Tobermory Lifeboat Station’s Sam Jones tells us what occurred minutes after this photo was taken: ‘A post rededication ceremony selfie with two coxswains and a chairman. Minutes later the pagers went off and the newly rededicated Tobermory...
Category: Articles
Our Merchant Navy
DUKE ALFRED. — " Really, Mr. PLIMSOLL., we're both in the same boat. You want seaworthy ships ; I want seaworthy men ; — and we'll try and get them." See DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S speach at...
Category: Poetry
Lyme Regis Atlantic 21 Rigid Inflatable Lifeboat
Lyme Regis Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat returning from service on July 24, 1983, at the start of Lyme's Lifeboat Week. Manned by Helmsman John Hodder and Crew Members Robert Irish, Colin Jones and Brian Miller, she had launched... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Ski-Boat
Lyme Regis Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat returning from service on July 24, 1983, at the start of Lyme's Lifeboat Week. Manned by Helmsman John Hodder and Crew Members Robert Irish, Colin Jones and Brian Miller, she had launched...
Dolphine
FISHING VESSEL TOWED IN BY PILOT CUTTER Teesmouth, Yorkshire. At 3.23 p.m.
on Sunday the 18th of August, 1963, the Redcar coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small boat was in difficulty three quarters of a mile...
Triarda
Hoylake, Cheshire - At 12.30 a.m.
on 21st October, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen about one mile off Leasowe lighthouse.
The life-boat Oldham IV was...
A Dinghy (11)
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire - At 8.20 p.m. on 4th August, 1966, a body was seen drifting off Cat rock in Newport bay.
At 8.35 the life-boat Howard Marryat was launched one hour before high water.
There was a...
None (3)
Appledore, Devon. At 12.45 P-m- on 15th February, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man on Lundy Island had broken his leg.
Arrangements were being made for him to be taken off by helicopter but the...