LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat
6th Feb- ruary. A boat was reported to be in distress off Canvey Island, but it was found to be only a drifting beach hut.— Rewards, £15 2s. 3d..
A Barge
9th October.
A barge had burned a flare, but must have gone on her way, as she could not be found.—Rewards, £23 15*. 3d..
A Raft
APRIL 12TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. A raft had got adrift with a boy aboard, but before help came he was drowned.
-Rewards, £8 18s. 6d.
A Whitley Bombing Aeroplane (1)
DECEMBER 9TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL, CLOVELLY, AND APPLEDORE, DEVON. On the afternoon of the 9th December Padstow No. 1 motor life-boat put out to the help of a Whitley bombing aeroplane which had been reported down in the...
Not Such a Fun Run!
Pictured are Richard Buckman aboard Sea Dragon, and crew members Peter Hooper, Ivan Greer and helmsman Jerry Norris aboard Blue Peter I.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Belt In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, and to enabla him to support another person besides himself.<...
Category: Articles
A Canoe
Mallaig, Inner Hebrides.—The motor life-boat Sir Arthur Rose left her moor- ings at 6.30 in the evening of the 21st of March, 1948, in a south-west gale with a rough sea, to the help of a canoe.
She found her on the beach....
A Piledriver
JULY 5TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 7.20 P .M. the coastguard reported two men were in danger on a-piledriver at Milford-on-Sea. A moderatesqually S.S.W. gale was blowing, with a rough breaking sea. The motor life-boat S.G.E. was...
A Converted Ship's Boat Sailfish
Wells, Norfolk.—At 11.3 on the morn- ing of the 5th of June, 1957, the coast- guard telephoned that a boat was in difficulties off Wells. At 11.15 the life-boat Cecil Paine was launched in a rough sea. There was a strong north-north-westerly...
A Trawler
Hastings, Sussex - At 7.20 a.m. on I3th July, 1967, it was learnt that the Bexhill police had reported a trawler in difficulties half a mile off the De La Warr pavilion. The life-boat Fairlight was launched at 7.40 in a light northerly...