LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy (3)
ESCORT FOR DINGHY WITH TWO CHILDREN ABOARD Filey, Yorkshire. At 7.33 on the evening of the 23rd September, 1962, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from a doctor's wife that the doctor and two children aged six...
Doctor Do-A-Lot
As Doctor George Middleton MBE retires as deputy honorary medical adviser (HMA) of St Davids lifeboat, he reflects back on his first service with the station shortly after his appointment as HMA in 1956.
The lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Yacht and a Sailing Dinghy
LAUNCH TO CAPSIZED DINGHY Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.
At 10.30 on the morning of the 12th August, 1962, the honorary secretary noticed a yacht and a sailing dinghy being blown to the north of the harbour in Berwick...
Three Boys
Ballycotton, Co. Cork - At 3.15 p.m.
on 9th January, 1968, the coxswain was informed that the local fishing boat Three Boys with a crew of twowas in difficulties in Ballycotton bay.
The life-boat Ethel...
From An Old Boathouse
A stone wliich was built into the old life-boat house at Cambois (Northumberland). This house, now destroyed, was erected in 1854, at the cost of Sir Matthew Ridley, Bt., who also presented the site. It was described at the time as " a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Three Cobles
AUGUST 6TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning the weather became very bad. Three cobles were at sea and the coxswain decided to launch the motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albina Whitley. She left at 11.10. A...
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended 30th June, 1909
THE machinery of modern civilization is so complicated, and moves, withal, so smoothly and silently, that the majority of people never give a thought to its intricacies, or to the constant effort and strain which the smooth working...
Category: Articles
£45,000 from An Aeroplane
The Newquay life-boat went out in a fog to a crashed, aeroplane. She found no one alive,'but. she brought ashore twelve bodies, mail bags and £45,000 in 100-dollar bills..
Category: Articles
Red Lancer
Stornoway, Hebrides.—At 8.45 on the evening of the 29th of September, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that the trawler Red Lancer, with a crew of nineteen, was ashore on the Reef Rocks at the entrance to Stornoway harbour. At nine...
Civil Service Post Office and British Telecom Fund Half Marathon Which Was Held In Windsor Great Park
Coxswain Vic Marsh of Swanage is seen helping Ertugrul Gomec to navigate after the finish of the Civil Service, Post Office and British Telecom Fund half marathon which was held in Windsor Great Park last June. He was the one paraplegic... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs