LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hexan
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex - At 6.35 p.m.
on 22nd June, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht was aground on a sandbank 1\ miles south east of Buxey Beacon.
The life-boat Valentine...
Holborn Head
At 1 a.m. on 27th July, 1968, the life-boat Pentland (Civil Service No.
31) was launched to search for the motor boat Holborn Head, with two people on board, which was overdue on passage from Stromness to...
David Wells, Has Been Helmsman of Clacton-On-Sea's Atlantic 21 Lifeboat
David Wells, has been helmsman of Clacton-on-Sea's Atlantic 21 lifeboat and a crew member of the station's D class lifeboat since 1983. From 1972 he was a crew member of the station's allweather lifeboat which was replaced in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gallilee, Success, Pilot Me and Provider
MCH. 15TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning five Whitby fishing vessels put to sea at 5 A.M. A strong N.N.E.
wind was blowing, with a heavy broken sea.
The sea increased and at 10...
An Aeroplane (153)
OCTOBER 16TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 5.30 A.M. messages were received from the coastguard that an aeroplane had caught fire and crashed into the sea a quarter of a mile off Happisburgh Beach, and at 5.46 A.M. the No. 1 motor...
Fishing Boats (2)
NOVEMBER 14TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
Early in the morning the local fishing fleet had put to sea in moderate weather, but by noon an east-north-east gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. Four motor fishing vessels were seen to...
A German Aeroplane’s Rubber Dinghy
DECEMBER 17TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
Shortly before 10 A.M. the coastguard reported an object, apparently a boat, about one mile E.S.E. of Sizewell look-out, and the No. 1 motor life-boat Abdy Beauclerk was launched at...
Lifesaving savings
Open a savings account with Furness Building Society and support the RNLI.
Furness Building Society has launched an affinity account with the RNLI under a ‘You save – we give’ banner. The society will make a cash payment...
Category: Articles
Wihelamina, of Veesdam
On the 24th Decem- ber, the schooner WAhelmina, of Veesdam, went on shore, during stormy weather, at Scolston Head, off Peterhead. The People's Journal, No. 1, life-boat at the latter place, went off and rescued one of the crew.
The Life-Boat
The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat is...
Category: Articles