LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Stag rescued after cliff plunge The British are proud of being a nation of animal lovers. Only here would a major rescue operation be mounted to save a wild animal. But as a deer was finally pulled to safety after a 5 hour ordeal, everyone...
Nellie
BRIXHAM, SOUTH DEVON.—The ketch Nellie, of Littlehampton, bound from Portsmouth for Falmouth in ballast, was seen in the bay riding at anchor and flying her ensign, union down, in her mizen rigging, on the afternoon of the 30th January. The...
Viper
Portrush, Co. Antrim.—During the morning of the llth January, 1938, the local motor fishing boat Viper's engine broke down when she was fishing about half a mile west of Ramore Head. She carried a crew of four. Another fishing boat, The...
Cas-Jel
Margate, Kent.—At 12.26 on the after- noon of the 7th of June, 1954, the coastguard reported that a small motor boat, with a crew of three, had broken down about two miles off Foreness. At 12.35 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No...
Mahe
Sennen Cove, Cornwall - At 6.59 p.m.
on 16th April, 1969, it was learnt that a two-masted schooner yacht had broken down about one mile south of Tol Pedn. The life-boat was requested to stand by. The yacht then resumed her...
Step By Step
St. Davids coxswain, Malcolm Gray, is shown here using his courage and determination to a slightly different end! The lifeboat station recently received a D class lifeboat for evaluation trials which was delivered by launching at a nearby... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Laura
FEBRUARY 10TH. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. At about 11.20 A.M. information came from the look-out that a motor fishing boat had broken down at The Rig, off the Copeland Islands, four miles from Donaghadee.
A...
Spurn Head Lifeboat Station By Christopher R Elliott
WHEN i WORKED for a weekly newspaper in the late 1940s on the Grimsby/ Cleethorpes side of the Humber I used to dream of visiting Spurn Head on the Yorkshire side. Certainly, when viewed through one of the telescopes on the front on a clear...
Category: Articles
Closing of the Wexford Station
FOE the past sixty-six years the Institu- tion has maintained a Life-boat Station at Wexford, at the south-eastern corner of Ireland. It has been one of the most important Stations on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland, for it has...
Category: Articles
Fishing Cobles and A Parachute (1)
FEBRUARY 7TH. - FILEY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. The Filey motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched at 1.10 in the afternoon to stand by the local fishing cobles as a strong south-west wind was blowing and the sea was rough. When the...