LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Formby Light-Ship
DECEMBER 8TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 2.20 A.M. a message was received from the Dock Board Authorities that the Formby Light-ship had been in collision with an unknown vessel and was adrift. A fresh N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a...
The Sailing Ship Ardencraig
The sailing ship Ardencraig, of Glasgow, foundered off Scilly during the afternoon of 8th January. Distress signals were heard from the Bishop Light-house, and the St.
Agnes Life-boat, Charles Deere James, and St....
Peep Into the Past
100 years ago The summer 1906 issue of the Journal featured an old sea dogliterally - in a report on the Clacton lifeboat, which went to the aid of a wrecked schooner Renner. The schooner's captain had been reluctant to leave his beloved...
Category: Articles
Launching a Life-Boat Is Not Always As Easy As It Looks. When the Flamborough Life-Boat Was Launched to Help a Boat on 6Th January 1968 She Ran Into a Rain Gulley
Launching a life-boat is not always as easy as it looks. When the Flamborough life-boat was launched to help a boat on 6th January 1968, she ran into a rain gulley. Here the launchers are shown digging a trench to divert the water..View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Middle Gas Float
At about 10 P.M. on the 13th November the coxswain saw that the Middle Gas Float had broken from its mooring and was drifting out of the Humber, be- coming a danger to navigation. The sea was smooth, with a light southerly wind, and the...
The Fishing Cobles
APRIL 27TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE. As a strong north-west wind had suddenly sprung up, raising a rough sea, the motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched at 12.20 in the afternoon to escort the fishing cobles to harbour.
Some of...
The Rnli Float Carrying a 21' Atlantic Ilb at the Lord Mayor's Show on November 10 the Theme Was 'The Year of the Life-Boat' By Courtesy of Keystone
The RNLI float carrying a 21' Atlantic ILB at the Lord Mayor's Show on November 10. The theme was 'The Year of the Life-boat'. by courtesy of Keystone. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On the Night of 14Th October Last Year the Buckle, Banffshire, Life-Boat Laura Moncur and a Shackleton Mark 3 of No. 120 Squadron, R.A.F. Kinloss, Took Part In a Search and Rescue Exercise. T
On the night of 14th October last year the Buckle, Banffshire, life-boat Laura Moncur and a Shackleton Mark 3 of No.
120 Squadron, R.A.F. Kinloss, took part in a search and rescue exercise. The life-boat carried a second... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Minesweeper M.L.P. 2593
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—At 1.27 early on the morning of the 30th of July, 1956, the Senior Naval Officer, Northern Ireland, asked if the life-boat would stand by a motor minesweeper which had hove to in bad weather three miles...
(Below) the Stole Nearest the Body Inflates Automatically When the Wearer Enters the Water
(Below) The Stole Nearest The Body Inflates Automatically When The Wearer Enters The Water. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs