LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Happy Days
Margate, Kent.—At 8.6 in the morning of the 12th of August, 1948, information was received from S.S. Holdernene, through North Foreland Radio and the coastguard, that a motor launch was in need of help near the Elbow...
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary C. 617 (1)
Peterhead, and Fraserburgh, Aberdeen- shire.—Shortly after 8 o'clock in the morning of the llth of December, 1948, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary C. 617, bound with stores from Invergordon to Rosyth, wirelessed to Wick Radio that she was...
A Thrilling Rescue Among the Rocks
ON Saturday, 19th November last, the St. Helier life-boat took part in another midnight rescue two months after that which earned Coxswain Thomas King a Gold Medal and his crew bronze medals, last September 14th. This time the station...
Category: Services
(Left) the Mtu Would Not Fit on the Ferry to Arranmore
(left) The MTU would not fit on the ferry to Arranmore and training had to be carried out on the lifeboat. Nora Flanagan is seen getting to grips with the electronics.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Motor Vessel Aground Off the Irish Coast
ON the 22nd October, 1961, the motor vessel Halronell, on passage from New- port, Monmouthshire, to Haulbowline, Co. Cork, encountered heavy weather off the Coningbeg lightvessel, and her bridge was damaged. Her master deci- ded to return to...
Category: Services
Sir Alec Rose, the round-the-world sailor, launched the Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association at the International Boat Show at Earls Court, London,
Sir Alec Rose, the round-the-world sailor, launched the Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association at the International Boat Show at Earls Court, London, on 2nd January, 1969. As a founder member Sir Alec is entitled to fly the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Motor Boats Glennis and Lady Lynn
Runswick, Yorkshire - At 5 p.m. on 22nd May, 1966, the motor mechanic informed the honorary secretary that two cobles were in difficulties and in danger of being blown out to sea. The life-boat The Elliott Gill was launched at 5.35 in a gale...
His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent
His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, president of the RNLI, pictured at the helm of Tynemouth's 52ft Arun class lifeboat George and Olive Turner during a tour of the north-east last November, photograph by courtesy of the Newcastle... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boats In the Battle of Britain.
The defeat of Germany's air attack on this country in the autumn of 1940, known as the Battle of Britain, lasted, according to the official accounts, from August 8th. to October 31st. During these 85 days life-boats were launched to the...
Category: Articles
A Small Boat Belonging to Livingstone
While the Life- boat Elliot Galer was out for her quarterly exercise, during a strong S.E. wind and rough sea on the 25th September, a small boat was sighted with four men in her. She was evi- dently in distress, and the Life-boat bore down...