LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

DURING THE EVENING of Tuesday July 28, 1981, Blackpool's D class inflatable lifeboat had been out on service, searching for what a man on shore had reported might be an upturned boat out to sea.

Nothing had been found...

THREE MEN who had set out to cross the Inner Wash from the River Nene to Hunstanton in a bathtub on Monday September 13, 1982, were reported overdue at 2115; the tub was lashed to inner tubes and an inflatable dinghy and powered by an...

Mineheads Atlantic 21 Class Rigid Inflatable shows her paces shortly after launching on exercise in late February.. - View image in PDF

Contents 3 Prototypes of a new Fast Slipway Lifeboat 4 7r l|lfT"|p Y T /TT Princess Margaret names Silver Jubilee (Civil Service No. 38), Margate . 5 Nlimber 471 Lifeboat Services 6 Lifeboat stations of the Isle of Man, by Joan...

FOUR other naming ceremonies were held in England, in June and July, 1950, at Seaham, Clovelly, Hastings, and Teesmouth.

Seaham The new Seaham life-boat lias been built out of a legacy from the late Miss Elizabeth Elmy, of...

At 5 P.M. on the 1st April, during a moderate S. gale, with a heavy sea, informa- tion was received from the Coastguard that a small fishing boat outside Lune Deep appeared to be in difficulties. The crew of the Motor Life-boat N.T. were...

ORMES' HEAD, LLAKDUDNO.—On the 27th February, information was received here that a vessel was in distress in the bay. The wind was blowing hard from the N.E. at the time, and the sea was very rough.

The Sisters'...

First man to greet the Atlantic heroes, Captain John Ridgway and Sergeant Chay Blyth when they stepped ashore at Kilronan, on the Aran Islands, on 3rd September, 1966, after their 92 day voyage of 3,000 miles, was Father Joseph McNamara, the... - View image in PDF