LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Boat (3)
Happisburgh, Norfolk. At 6.45 p.m.
on i2th June, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with three people on board would capsize if her crew attempted to beach her. At 7.7 the IRB launched in...
Seven Ships including the Orminster and the Browning
GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT NEWCASTLE JANUARY 21ST. - NEWCASTLE, AND CLOUGHEY, CO. DOWN. At 12.45 in the morning a message came to Cloughey from the coastguard that a steamer was ashore half a mile off Ballyquinton, and at 1.40 the life-boat...
An Exploit of Sir William Hillary
The rescue of 62 lives from the City of Glasgow on the night of 19th October, 1825, when Hillary himself was washed overboard, and had his chest crushed and six ribs broken. This was one of three services for each of which he was awarded the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Village Life-Boat Day
(From Country Life.) THERE was a sound of men's voices singing, calls and cries, laughter and the ringing of a bell; everyone went to the windows. Through the new green leaves one could see in the road a little group of men and girls...
Category: Articles
Left: Brighton Lifeboat Crew
Left: Brighton lifeboat crew members and SEA Check coordinator Tony Clare snatch the trophy for the fastest RNLI crew team for the sixth year running.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Letters
Abigail revisited Readers of the Winter 2003/04 edition of the Lifeboat may remember a letter from Alan Jones recounting his airlift from the yacht Abigail with a suspected heart attack. He wrote with some embarrassment at eventually being...
Category: Correspondence
Avra (1)
JANUARY 31ST. - SALCOMBE, AND TORBAY, DEVON. The Greek steamer Avra, of Andros, had gone ashore at Yealm River, but she was able to refloat, and although badly damaged, managed to reach Plymouth - Rewards : Salcombe, £7 17s. ; Torbay,...
Lifeboat Services
LIFEBOAT BUMPS OVER SAND TO STRANDED YACHT Four saved from yacht aground in heavy sea and swell A service by the Walton and Frinton lifeboat to a yacht aground with four people on board has earned the coxswain a letter of thanks from the...
Category: Services
M.V. Futurity and Little Slam
Collision A COLLISION IN DENSE FOG between MV Futurity and the motorboat Little Slam some three miles south east of Littlehampton was reported to the honorary secretary of Shoreham Harbour lifeboat station at 1510 on Saturday May 12, 1979....
Two Dinghies (6)
Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...