LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pandora
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man - At n a.m. on igth April, 1967, news was received that the motor yacht Pandora had broken down about 14 miles south east of Port St. Mary and the freighter Caxton was standing by. The life-boat R. A. Colby Cubbin...
Solent Gull, of Poole
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - At 8.50 p.m. on 17th October, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen north west of the Needles near the shingle bank. The life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe slipped...
Tarka II
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex - At 9 p.m. on 25th May, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted six to eight miles south south west of Shoreham. At 9.7 the life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant was...
Ros Molt
At 10.40 a.m. on llth June, 1969, information was received that a fishing vessel was in difficulties at Loop head, County Clare. The lifeboat Rowland Watts slipped her moorings at 10.50. The tide was flooding. At 4.15 the life-boat came up...
R.I.B.S
Newhaven, Sussex - At 2.30 p.m. on 26th July, 1969, the coxswain of the life-boat, while at sea on exercise, received a radio message from the fishing vessel Edith May that the motor boat R.I.B.S., with one man aboard, had broken down 12...
More Than 20 Chartered Surveyors and Their Office Colleagues from Blackpool
More than 20 chartered surveyors and their office colleagues from Blackpool chose to raise money for the RNLI and their own benevolent fund by raising themselves a foot above the ground on stilts and completing a half-mile course down the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Arthur Curnow
the command of Coxswain Arthur Curnow and had reached Berry Head by 1500. It was found that an 11-year-old boy had slipped 50ft down a 180ft cliff and, with head and arm injuries, was trapped on a ledge. Ambulance men were with him but, as... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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A rescue party waits to take an injured man from aboard the Teignmouth lifeboat to hospital. The man had fallen down cliffs on 18 March at Ansley's Cove in Torquay and suffered a broken ankle. He was carried a further 30ft to the base of...
Ocean Maid, of Holy Island
FEBRUARY 11TH. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 1.15 in the afternoon the coastguard telephoned that a fishing coble was showing a signal of distress three miles east of Holy Island. The motor life-boat Milburn was...
The Silver Scale, of North Sunderland
SEPTEMBER 2ND. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 3.59 in the afternoon information was received from the coastguard that a fishing coble was on fire two miles east of Cullernose Point. A light southerly wind was blowing and the sea was...