LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Aiming High! The Navy Again Took Part In Portsmouth Life-Boat Day. Among Others Who Helped Were the Portsmouth Brotherhood
Aiming High! The Navy Again Took Part In Portsmouth Life-Boat Day Among Others Who Helped Were The Portsmouth Brotherhood. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
IRB Launches. Rescues by IRB's in July were Carried out by the Following Stations
SOUTH WEST St. Ives, Cornwall - At 6.25 p.m. on 3rd July, 1967, news was received that a skin diver was missing near the Stones reef. The IRB was launched at 6.30 in a moderate westerly breeze and a choppy sea. The tide was ebbing. The...
Category: Services
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1898
Jan. 13.—Voted 22. each to the fonr sur- vivors of the crew of the Margate beachmon's surf boat Friend of aU Nations, which was capsized, with, the loss of nine of her crew while on her way to a distressed vessel on the 2nd December last...
Category: Articles
Boxing Day Dip
This incriminating picture of Rab Rice, Larne lifeboat mechanic, and his 'girlfriend' was taken at the East Antrim Boat Club sponsored swim on Boxing Day 1999.
The event saw 23 swimmers from the boat club, local... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Father Neptune at Herne Bay
A fortnight's celebrations of the centenary of Herne Bay last August concluded with life-boat day. Father Neptune, impersonated by Captain J. Irvine H. Friend, M.C., J.P., the chairman of the Margate branch, arriving in the Margate motor... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sunbeam
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—On the afternoon of the 27th May the coastguard telephoned that a small vessel was aground on Scroby sands, bearing N.E. by E. from Yarmouth coastguard station. A rather heavy sea was...
Sandling
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 1.39 on the afternoon of the 14th of April, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that a yacht two miles to the southward appeared to have broken down. The sails had been lowered, but she had a ball at the mast head...
Savourna
During the local regatta which was held on the the 29th July, the S.W. wind freshened to a moderate gale and the sea became rough and heavy. Several of the com- peting boats found the seas too much and had to retire. The yacht Savourna, when...
Carillion, of Cowes
RACE CASUALTY While the yacht Carillion of Cowes was taking part in the Fastnet race on 5th August, 1971, she struck rocks off the Lizard and was damaged.
At 9.30 p.m. the life-boat Duke of Cornwall (Civil Service JVo. 33)...
Mignonne
Troon, Ayrshire. At 5.38 on the evening of the 13th of July, 1958, the Kildonan coastguard informed the hon- orary secretary that a motor boat was in difficulties half a mile off Corrie Point. At six o'clock the life-boat James and...