LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Keep Your Kit On
Earlier this year GMTV set up a nationwide search for the 'sexiest man in uniform'. Thousands of applications were received and the panel of judges had the tough task of whittling down the entrants to a final 12. One of the 12 was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (33)
MARCH 8TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
While the No. 2 life-boat was at exercise with the District Inspector aboard, a service call, the third that day, was received. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea.
Daphne
JULY 24TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 10.10 at night the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was burning flares off the Ramsgate bathing station. The motor life-boat Prudential was launched at 10.32 in a calm sea and found the motor cruiser Daphne...
An Aeroplane (125)
SEPTEMBER 5TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat was recalled by the naval u t h o r i t i e s s h o r t l y a f t e r l a u n c h i n g . - Rewards, £7 18s..
An Aeroplane (133)
SEPTEMBER 25TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX.
An aeroplane was reported to have come down in the sea off Thorney Island, but the life-boat found nothing. As she approached Chichester harbour, she saw oil on the water, and learnt later...
An Aeroplane and an R.A.F. Rescue Launch
NOVEMBER 27TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
At 11.45 P.M. a message came from the coastguard that an aeroplane was down in the sea three miles N.W. from Wells look-out, and at 12.19 the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee, 1910-1935...
An Aeroplane (81)
MAY 11TH. - BLACKPOOL, AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE.
A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off South Shore, Blackpool, but later it was found that she had made a landing on the Southport side of the...
An Aeroplane (96)
JUNE 21ST. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A British fighter aeroplane had come down in the sea, but the pilot was rescued by a barge.
In addition to the two life-boats the motor boarding boat from...
The Wreck of the Deutschland
ON the morning of the 6th December, 1875, occurred one of those sad disasters which ever and anon remind us of the dangerous character of our shores, the wreck of an emigrant ship. But a few months since the German passenger steamer Schiller...
Category: Articles
Ceremonies
Relief - Atlantic 75 Rotaract I On a bright November Saturday afternoon nearly 80 Rotaractors with a sprinkling of Rotarians gathered at the Poole Depot Quay for the naming ceremony of a new Atlantic 75 lifeboat, B718.
It...
Category: Inaugurations