LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fundraising
Best foot forward Hundreds of schools and businesses supported the RNLI's annual Save Our Soles day on Friday 27 January 2006.
From Sennen Cove to Shetland, from Larne to Lowestoft and from Beaumaris to Ballyglass,...
Category: Articles
Home from the Sea:
Home from the sea: a welcome through the airport window for Ha/lur Helgason, third engineer of the Icelandic coaster Tungufoss, from his wife and his little son Halli.
Hallur Helgason was one of the crew of 11 rescued by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Smiling Morn
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—On the 15th of July, 1955, the No. 2 life-boat Lucy Lovers was bound for her station from Oulton Broad following a routine survey. About 1.10 in the afternoon, when she had reached a position one mile south of Southwold,...
Right the Timed Competition
Right. The timed competition to dress in lifeboatmen's clothing attracted the youngsters. - View image in PDF
As a finale the senior staff of the Institution took part in a hotly contested, and frequently sabotaged, play-off1. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Zona, Pisces
RESCUE IN WORST WEATHER FOR 20 YEARS WHEN on 20th November, 1971, red flares were sighted in the area of the Wallet Spitway buoy, the Clacton, Essex, life-boat Valentine Wyndham- Quin was launched at 6.17 p.m. The wind was south south west...
V.C. Takes IRB Ride
LANCE-CORPORAL RAMBAHADUR, who this year was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery in Sarawak, was in June taken for a trip in Eastbourne's IRB He was staying at Upper Dicker at the home of Major J. Gales, an officer in the loth...
Category: Awards
Success
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—About one o'clock on the afternoon of the 24th of November, 1955, the coastguard reported that the fishing boat Success, of Whitby, was about three miles to the north-east and making for Scar- borough, as Whitby...
The French Motor Trawler Janock
Torbay, Devon.—At 9.7 in the even- ing of the 3rd of May, 1948, the coast- guard telephoned that a vessel had signalled for help eight miles east-north- east from Berry Head. The motor life-boat Hearts of Oak, on temporary duty at the...
La Salle
STRUCK REEF St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 4 a.m.
on 28th May, 1965, Niton radio reported that the motor vessel La Salle of Monrovia had struck a reef about two miles north of Lihou Island. The life-boat Lloyd's, on...
La Nievre, of Boulogne
AUGUST 19TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 10.5 in the morning the coastguard reported that a fishing vessel appeared to be out of control two miles south-east by east of the South Goodwin Light-vessel. A moderate south-south-west breeze was blowing,...