LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Speed Boat (1)
TORBAY, Tuesday June 16, 1987: Brixham Coastguard alerted the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station at 1515 that a small speedboat had run aground off Thatcher Rock and that one of its four occupants had injured her ankle jumping...
The Steamers North Gwalia and Mauranger
The No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane was also launched on the 25th April in connection with the collision of the steamers North Gwalia and Mauranger, but on reaching the former found that she had sunk and was abandoned. A tug came up and re-...
A Motor Rescue Dinghy
MAY 5TH . - WELLS, NORFOLK. A motor rescue dinghy had been dropped from an aeroplane to airmen whose aeroplane had come down in the sea and who had got away in their rubber dinghy. The motor dinghy took the other dinghy in tow. This is...
A Vessel (2)
OCTOBER 6TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES.
A vessel had been reported in distress off the south-west corner of the Island of Skye, but nothing could be found, and after spending the night at Carbost, the life-boat, which was in...
A Fishing Boat (7)
AUGUST 29TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN
Signals of distress had been reported, but the life-boat found nothing, and later it was learnt that the signals had come from a fishing boat whose engine had failed, but it had started...
A Shot With a Line Attached, Thrown Over a Stranded Ship
A Shot With A Line Attached, Thrown Over A Stranded Ship.
Category: Drawings
Towing In a Barge
The CUcton-ori'Sea life-boat bringing in the barge Audrey on 31st July, This photograph was taken from the air. (See next page.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Salving a Barge
The motor life-boats at Clacton-on-Sea and Walton and Frinton bringing in the barge T.T.H., of London, on 27th January, 1935. - View image in PDF
(See opposite page.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Launching a Winner
Margate life-boat - prize-winning entry in the Evening Standard's recent Amateur Cameraman contest. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs