LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ILFRACOMBE, NORTH DEVON.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a life-boat establishment at Ilfracombe, where there had at one time been a life-boat station under local management, which, however, it had*been found necessary...
Category: Articles
Flamborough
FLAMBOROUGH, Sunday May 12,1985: Flamborough's 37ft Oakley class lifeboat, Will and Fanny Kirby, launched at 1207. The Filey fishing coble, Gaidan, had been crabbing close in under the cliffs, north of Flamborough Head. The weather was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
RAF Officers Examining the Airborne Life-Boat on the Deck of the Danish Trawler Betty Fn 41 at Great Yarmouth In July 1943 the Trawler Crew Had Slashed the Inflated
R.A.F. officers examining the airborne life-boat on the deck of the Danish trawler Betty FN 41 at Great Yarmouth in July, 1943.
The trawler crew had slashed the inflated whale back bags at bow and stern to deflate them. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Angling Boat
October hurricane BRONZE MEDAL AT 0559 ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1987 during the height of the infamous hurricane which hit Southern England that day, Thames Coastguard MRSC reported to Coxswain/Mechanic Robin Castle, of Sheerness that red...
Four Vellums Awarded to Crew Members
AT 1.25 on the afternoon of the 15th August, 1961, the Cromer coastguard received a message from the coastguard look-out at Cley that a motor yacht was burning a smoke distress flare some four to five miles north-east-by- east of the...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management.
November Meeting.
Dungeness and Hythe, Kent.—On the 8th October, the barge Shamrock, of London, was...
Category: Services
The Lighthouse
THREE months at sea, and one on shore; Three months at sea—yet not afloat j Around our home the breakers roar, Yet own we neither ship nor boat.
Rock-based, amid the swirl of foam, The lighthouse stands—it is our...
Category: Poetry
The Rig Supply Vessel St Mark
Rig supply vessel sinks after collision Cramer's Tyne class lifeboat Ruby and Arthur Reed II is pictured standing by the rig supply vessel St Mark shortly before she sank on 6 August 1990.
The lifeboat had been launched...
Your shout
Keep our launches!
In response to Christopher Hansen’s comment last issue, please do not give up the lifeboat launchings summary. You can’t possibly feature more than a very few high-profile rescues in...
Category: Articles
Mafalda
Appledore, Devon.—At 5.15 in the afternoon of the 4th of July, 1948, the Westward Ho coastguard telephoned that a yacht appeared to be in diffi- culties eight miles north-east of Hart- land Point, and at 5.35 the motor life- boat The...