LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
St Simeon
French trawler in distress AT 0401 on the morning of Friday February 15, 1985, Falmouth's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Elizabeth Ann, left the lee of Falmouth docks heading out to sea on service at full speed. Coxswain Viv Pentecost was at...
The Ex-HDML Eun Mara an Tar
Broken Steering Gear ON SEPTEMBER 29, 1973, Second Coxswain Rowley at Scarborough, Yorkshire (the coxswain being away on holiday), was informed at 11.22 p.m. by the duty officer of the lighthouse that red flares had been sighted off the...
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Ladies' Guild Held An 'After Dinner at Eight' Wine and Savouries Evening In June at the Home of Mrs Margaret Adams (I) at Herring Fleet St.O
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston ladies' guild held an 'After Dinner at Eight' wine and savouries evening in June at the home of Mrs Margaret Adams (I.) at Herring fleet, St Olaves, to celebrate the presentation of a fund-raising... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Signs of life
2 July: Dunbar, East Lothian When Dunbar lifeboat crew sped to a sinking fishing boat, they feared they had arrived too late – the fishing boat’s bow was all that could be seen. Crew Member Alistair Punton jumped...
Category: Articles
Wyvern
Four rescued in gale from stranded yacht The Director of the RNLI, Lt Cdr Brian Miles, has written to the honorary secretary of Lytham St Annes lifeboat station, Frank Kilroy, to congratulate the crew 'on a first class service in the...
On Exercise By Andrew Gould Assistant Public Relations Officer RNLI
IT is THE PRACTICE in the lifeboat service for the divisional inspector of lifeboats to make a formal visit to each of the offshore lifeboat stations in his division once every six months (every three months for ILBs) for the purpose of...
Category: Articles
A Life-Boat Film In Australia
IN the Yarmouth Mercury on 5th March last, under the heading " Yarmouth and Gorleston Motor Life-boat's Fame in Australia," a letter was published "which had been received by a Gorleston man from his son in Australia. He...
Category: Articles
Suomi
BROADSTAIRS.—A message by telephone was received from the North Sand Head Light-vessel on the 27th May, reporting a vessel ashore on the Goodwin Sands.
A moderate gale of wind was blowing from the N.N.E., there was a heavy...
The Angling Boat Blue Fin
Nine rescued TYNEMOUTH COASTGUARD telephoned the honorary secretary of Tynemouth lifeboat station at 1511 on Sunday April 11, 1982. to tell him that the angling boat Blue Fin appeared to be in distress south of Tyne Piers. Eleven minutes...
First Knight
The Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum has been awarded to Paul Gilson, helmsman of the Southend lifeboat, following the rescue of two people from the yacht First Knight in appalling weather conditions.
At 1351...