LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tyne Class:
Tyne class: The second prototype 47ft fast slipway boat in heavy weather trials (left) off Berry Head, Brixham (photograph by courtesy of Crew Member Nigel Coulton). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The 24ft Cabin Cruiser Tomey Too
Overdue HAYLING ISLAND POLICE received a telephone call from a lady in Berkshire at 0330 on Tuesday January 3 to say that her husband and son had not returned from a fishing trip. They had set out from Northney Marina at 1030 and had been...
Helping others to help themselves
Two RNLI lifeguards took a ‘rewarding and humbling’ trip in December 2012 to train other lifeguards in Senegal, West Africa. Lifeguards Tim Doran, from the Causeway Coast, and Vaughan Lawson, from Devon, travelled to Yoff Beach in Dakar, at...
Category: Articles
Crew Member Graham Raines - Awarded the Bronze Medal for His Part In the Rescue of a Crew Man from the Yacht Dingaling
Crew member Graham Raines - awarded the Bronze medal for his part in the rescue of a crew man from the yacht Dingaling.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A NEW LEASE OF LIFE
They were crying out to be saved.’ It’s the kind of phrase you’ll hear from our lifeboat crews after
a rescue. But there is another group who share this noble narrative – the lifeboat restorers
They’re depending...
Category: Articles
Ottowa
The Life-boat Eliza Avins was launched shortly after 9 A.M. on the 26th December in a whole S.W. gale and heavy sea, a message having been received stating that several vessels were in danger in Plymouth Sound. She proceeded to the...
July
Launches 27. Lives rescued 15.
JULY 9TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, AND CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. While bound from Rochester to Maldon with a load of brick rubble the barge Maria, of Rochester, lost her sprit and was in...
Category: Services
Lucy
Broken rudder THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Poole Lifeboat station was informed by Portland RHQ at 0750 on Tuesday, August 23 that a Dutch warship had reported a 25' yacht, Lucy, with a broken rudder 23 miles south of Anvil...
Harbour Lights Uk
nest This 141 ft. tall lighthouse, built in 1906, guards Weymouth Bay md the treacherous currents on the South Coast.
IWll.M.J Bill Dorset Eddy stone Lighthouse Devon 8x4 tinted limited edition MMibUc 2001 onfy £77.50...
Category: Advertisement
The Launch Bat Boat II
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 11.15 on the morning of the 16th of July, 1960, the coastguard passed on to the honor- ary secretary a report that a motor launch was firing red flares three miles east of Bembridge. The life-boat Jesse Lumb was...