LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Golden Hope and Blue Peter
Whitby, Yorkshire. At 7.19 p.m. on 9th December, 1965, the coxswain was told that a small yacht was in difficulties at the harbour entrance. The motor fishing vessel Golden Hope went to the yacht, but was unable to render any assistance as...
Kelly and Anja, Cogneto and a Cabin Yacht
Four calls SHOEBURYNESS COASTGUARD sighted a fishing boat off West Shoebury Beacon exhibiting a distress signal at 1550 on Monday, June 6, 1977. The auto-klaxon to Southend-on-Sea ILB boathouse was sounded and the duty crew prepared to...
A Boat (3)
APRIL 29TH. - SALCOMBE, DEVON. At 12.25 in the afternoon the coastguard at Hope Cove reported that eight men in a 16-feet boat had stranded on Book Rock near Thurlestone. An E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and the men, who were...
An Aeroplane (87)
MAY 22ND. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At 6.43 P .M. a telephone message came from the senior naval officer at Liverpool, asking the lifeboat to go to the help of a British aeroplane in distress, and the motor life-boat M.O.Y.E. was...
Pappillon
JULY 2ND. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. At 11.15 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel was on fire about five miles south-west of Shoreham. A fresh westerly wind was blowing, with a rough sea. At 11.25 P.M. the motor...
Acknowledgment
THE photograph of the presentation of the Centenary Vellum at Appleclore, which was reproduced in the last issue of The Lifeboat, was taken by Mr. R. L.
Knight, photographer of Barnstaple, and was reproduced by his kind...
Category: Articles
Victoire Roger
DETAILS LATER Sennen Cove, Cornwall. The lifeboat Susan Ashley was launched on 24th March, 1964, to help the Belgian trawler Victoire Roger. A full account of the service will appear in the next issue of THE LIFE-BOAT..
Yesterday
Yesterday . . . 'The Illustrated London News' records the first launch, in 1867, of Licensed Victualler, the first RNLI lifeboat to be stationed at Hunstanton. Boat, carriage and a 'commodious house' were paid for by the...
Category: Drawings
Service to Junella:
Service to Junella: Just alter midnight on September 29. 1980. Stornoway's 48ft 6in Solent lifeboat, Hugh William Viscount Cough, under the command of Coxswain Malcolm MacDonald launched on service to the motor fishing vessel Junella....
Category: Services
Watford Branch
Watford branch has raised more than £10,000 since it was re-formed in 1980. During its 1982 lifeboat week £2,091.23 was raised and hard at work, with the support of Council/or Ted Amy, are (I to r) Chris Rawling, Vic Curdwell,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs