LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Through the Surf: One of the United States Coastguard Motor Lifeboat School's 44Ft Lifeboats In Action at Cape Disappointment
Through The Surf: One of the United States Coastguard Motor Lifeboat School's 44Ft Lifeboats In Action at Cape Disappointment. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Sidney Harry Bartlett Page, of Southend- on-Sea. He has been coxswain for nearly fifteen years, has taken part in the rescue of over 300 lives, and has won the Institution's silver medal for...
Category: Articles
The Sailing Boat Cameo
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 8.23 on the evening of the 12th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the sailing boat Cameo with a man and a boy on board was overdue from Langstone harbour. She had left the...
Across the Waves...
Across the waves...
RNLI fundraisers all the way from the Falkland Islands visited Bishop's Waltham branch in August last year and presented a cheque for their most recent box collection, and a special 'I plaque.<... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
B.Y. 109
DUTCH SLOOP TOWED TO DOVER Dover, Kent. At 7.14 on the evening of Saturday the 7th September, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a 35-foot Dutch sloop had broken down between 300 and 400 yards astern of the South Goodwin...
The Lifeboat
The lifeboat which now goes out to help fishing boats at Whitby is the 44ft Waveney The White Rose of Yorkshire. The Waveney class lifeboat, introduced from the US Coast Guard in 1964, was the first of the RNLI's 'fast afloat'... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Sunfleet
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At three o'clock on the after- noon of the 28th of May, 1955, the Gorleston coastguard reported that a local doctor had received a message from the S.S. Sunfleet, of Goole. asking if a man on board,...
Eliza, of Sunderland, and Firm, of London,
KESSINGLAND.—On the 22nd December, the schooner Eliza, of Sunderland, and the sloop Firm, of London, were observed showing signals of distress on Benacre Point. The No. 2 Life-boat, the Grace and Lolly, of Broad Oak, was promptly launched,...
OTHER LIFE-BOAT LAUNCHES
In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 114, 126, 132, the following launches on service were made during the months September, October and November, 1969, inclusive:...
Category: Services
Etleena, of London
JANUARY 19TH. -SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 8.30 in the morning the naval control reported a vessel in need of help one mile south of the Medway Gate. A strong north-west wind was blowing, with a rough sea and snow squalls. The motor...