LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Boat (1)
Fenit, Co. Kerry - At 1.55 p.m. on 25th April, 1968, Valentia radio informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat with two men on board was in difficulties with engine trouble at the mouth of the river Shannon.
The...
Daphne
Salcombe, Devon - At 4.10 p.m. on 15th September, 1968, it was learnt that a yacht was in difficulties near Starhole bay. At 4.43 the life-boat The Baltic Exchange slipped her moorings in a strong north easterly breeze with a rough sea. It...
Natuna
Fishguard, Pembrokeshire - At 2.17 p.m. on 15th October, 1968, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen from a yacht three miles north of the north breakwater. The life-boat Howard Marryat was launched at...
Moira
Seaham, Co. Durham - At 1.14 p.m.
on 14th December, 1968, it was learnt that the crew of a boat were waving a red flag south of the harbour entrance. At 1.20 the life-boat Will and Fanny Kirby was...
A Dinghy (3)
Skegness, Lincolnshire - At 1.37 p.m.
on 29th August, 1969, the coastguard reported that a dinghy had fired a red flare about one mile east of Skegness pier. The life-boat Charles Fred Grantham was launched at 2 o'clock...
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
Scarborough
SCARBOROUGH, Thursday June 11, 1987: Scarborough's 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Amelia searches with the station's D class inflatable boat for a 13-year-old Grimsby schoolboy, swept from the Royal Albert Drive slipway by a large wave... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Porthdinllaen -- West Division
Porthdinllaen -- West Division Porthdinllaen (non Welsh speakers can try 'Porth-incline' as a rough approximation) is home to a slipway-launched Tyne. The station's remote location, in a small cove on the north-west coast of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Boat Roustabout
JAN. 3RD. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
During the morning the sailing boat Roustabout, of Lowestoft, left harbour with a crew of four. At 11.30 A.M. the life-boat coxswain, who had gone to the coastguard lookout, saw the boat...
Snapper
JAN. 22ND. - POOLE AND BOURNEMOUTH, DORSET. At about noon in- formation was received through the coastguard that the motor launch Snapper, which was bound from Hamworthy to Southampton, was in difficulties off Boscombe Pier. A...