LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Portsmouth - Langstone Harbour - D Class Loni Raglan
The Right Honourable The Lord Raglan names Portsmouth's new D class inflatable Lord Raglan.
Funds for the new lifeboat were raised by the landlord and customers of a pub of the same name.
Photo Jeff... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboathouse Destroyed:
Lifeboathouse destroyed: a 645-tonnc coaster. Kingsabbey ploughed into Southend Pier on the evening of Monday June M . 1986. She came l« rest athwart the lifeboat slipway destroying piles supporting the front of the boalhouse. More... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hundreds Of Fancy-Dressed Swimmers And Spectators Brave The Elements At Charmouth Beach Each Christmas
Hundreds of fancy-dressed swimmers and spectators brave the elements at Charmouth beach each Christmas, thanks to Carol and Geoff Prosser at the Royal Oak, to raise money for Lyme Regis lifeboat station, so far to the tune of over... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Trawler (8)
OCT. 1ST. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
A small trawler had been reported in a sinking condition fifty miles away, but another vessel took her in tow. The lifeboat returned after being out for over nine hours. - Rewards,...
Inshore Rescue Hovercraft
Inshore rescue hovercraft The Hurley Flyer 'Recently, when a nine-year-old girl in a dinghy and a man were in trouble, the lifeboat picked them up and the hovercraft flew the casualties right across the beach up the slipway to the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Seaplane
DECEMBER 6TH. - PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE.
A seaplane had been reported down in the sea, but was later reported to be safe. While searching for her, the lifeboat found a barrage balloon partly deflated, but in the heavy...
A Boat
JUNE 5TH. - DOVER, KENT. The lifeboat rescued fifteen French soldiers from an open boat.
For details see “ Evacuation of Men of the British Expeditionary Force and the French Army from Dunkirk,” page 79..
Safely home
Tynemouth’s Severn class all-weather lifeboat Spirit of Northumberland is pictured towing a disabled fi shing boat to her home port of North Shields on 11 August. Trudie May’s skipper made an emergency call after his salmon nets got caught...
Category: Articles
Rescued From Rocks
Two boaters stranded on a small pinnacle of rocks in choppy seas were glad to see Trearddur Bay’s B class lifeboat Dorothy Selina on 23 October.
Their boat had suffered engine failure, smashed against the rocks and...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (189)
NOVEMBER 29TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND. A British aeroplane had crashed in the Silloth Channel, but the lifeboat found nothing, and on putting into Silloth learned that the aeroplane had been found, but that the crew had been...