LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dido and the Lymington Harbour Master's Launch
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - At 11.10 p.m. on 3ist July, 1966, red flares were reported about 400 yards east of the entrance to Lymington river. At 11.28 the life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe proceeded in a southerly gale. The tide was...
Golden Years, the Danish Coaster Else Gitte
Hurricane force 12 STORM FORCE WINDS, gusting to hurricane force 12 from the west south west, were sweeping the west coast of Scotland on the morning of Thursday March 20, 1986, when the Troon pilot heard over his radio that the fishing...
The Admiralty Tanker Wave Victor (2)
Ilfracombe, and Appledore, Devon; and Minehead, Somerset.—At 5.24 on the afternoon of the 17th of January, 1954, the Admiralty tanker Wave Victor, which had fifty-five people on board, wirelessed that fire had broken out in her engine-room...
The Life-Boat Exhibit In the Court of Heroes, Government Building, at the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, 1925 (1)
The Life-Boat Exhibit In The Court of Heroes Government Building at The British Empire Exhibition Wembley 1925. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The "George Hounsfield" on Service In 1882
Going out to the schooner Rambler of Folkestone in a whole gale with a very heavy sea. She rescued four of the crew of five who had taken to the rigging. Shortly afterwards the schooner's masts went by the board.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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...
The Launch Victor and Lulworth Castle
Dungeness, Kent. At 10.41 on the morning of the 28th of July, 1960, thecoastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a vessel towing a cabin cruiser appeared to have broken down.
She was drifting broadside and flying a...
First Gold Medal for Ten Years
FOR the first time for ten years and for only the second time since the end of the last war the Institution's highest award for gallantry, the gold medal, has been conferred. The medal was awarded to Coxswain Richard Evans of Moelfre,...
Category: Services
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...