LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services by Auxiliary Rescue-boats
Launches 4 Lives rescued 7 ISLE OF WHITHORN, WIGTOWNSHIRE. At 1.3 in the afternoon of the 2nd of February, 1945, the naval officer in charge at Stranraer reported that an Anson aeroplane was in the sea in Luce Bay, five miles from the Mull...
Category: Services
Naming Ceremonies
Relief fleet - D ciass City of Peterborough A new D class lifeboat funded by money raised from a special appeal in the Peterborough area, and organised by the local Peterborough branch, was officially handed over and dedicated in a ceremony...
Category: Inaugurations
By Land and Sea
John Dewar and Loren Sutherland from the small island of Burray (one of the Orkney Islands) decided to raise funds for the RNLI and between them topped £1,000 in sponsorship money.
John swam from the neighbouring... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Inflated Rubber Raft
MAN AND RAFT TAKEN ON BOARD Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 8.58 on the morning of the 24th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man on an inflated rubber raft was being blown out to sea.
A fresh...
Starting All Over
Anyone who has seen an Atlantic righted after a capsize - hopefully only as a demonstration during Open Days - and then seen the engines restart 'on the button' cannot help but be impressed.
Such reliability does...
Category: Articles
David Jolly (Tiller Master)
THE ORIGINAL TILLER MASTER Bought by those who need the Best For Wheel or Tiller Among the thousands sold were those to the first four multihulls home in the 1976 OSTAR and to a 40ft Wharram catamaran which sailed from Australia to the...
Category: Advertisement
Fishing Boats Constance, Pilot Me II, Betty, Premier,Hilda II,Rachel,etc
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the afternoon of the 20th of January, 1952, a strong and increasing north-easterly wind was blowing, with a heavy sea, and at 2.20 the life-boat E.C.J.R.
was launched to escort in the return-...
An Aeroplane (26)
JUNE 4TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT, AND SELSEY, SUSSEX. At 1.15 A.M. a message was received at Bembridge from the Foreland coastguard, that an aeroplane had come down in the sea south-west of the coastguard hut at Hayling Island. A...
Pilot Me II and the Courage
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 2.30 on the afternoon of the 8th of December, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the Scarborough fishing boat Pilot Me II was bound for Whitby with engine trouble, and that the Scarborough life- boat was with her. At...
Additional Life-Boat Stations and New Boats
FOWEY, CORNWALL.—A life-boat has been recently stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION at Polkerris, near Fowey, the cost of the same and of a substantial boat-house being defrayed chiefly by WILLIAM RASHLEIGH, Esq., J. F. DULLER,...
Category: Articles