LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Liberty Ship Fort St. Paul, and The Admiralty Vessel Ben My Chree
JANUARY 2ND. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 12.10 in the afternoon the naval control told the coxswain that two ships had been in collision between No. 1 and No. 2 Sea Reach Buoys. There was a thick fog, with a light westerly breeze and a...
Letters
Abigail revisited Readers of the Winter 2003/04 edition of the Lifeboat may remember a letter from Alan Jones recounting his airlift from the yacht Abigail with a suspected heart attack. He wrote with some embarrassment at eventually being...
Category: Correspondence
Above: Dragon Boat Teams Work to the Beat of a Drum
Above: Dragon Boat Teams Work To The Beat Of A Drum. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
As London Life-Boat Day Went Ahead on 18Th March 1969 the Search for the Missing Longhope Life-Boat Was Announced on Newspaper Placards All Over London
As London Life-boat Day went ahead on 18th March, 1969, the search for the missing Longhope life-boat was announced on newspaper placards all over London.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Weymoulh: the Quay Was Crowded for the Naming of the 54' Arun Class Lifeboat Tony Vandervell Photograph By Courtesy of Hms Osprey
Weymoulh: The quay was crowded for the naming of the 54' Arun class lifeboat Tony Vandervell . . . photograph by courtesy of HMS Osprey. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Young People Thought Up All Sorts of Energetic Ideas a Weird and Wonderful Fleet of London Rotaract Clubs' Rafts Make for the Starting Line
Young people thought up all sorts of energetic ideas . . . a weird and wonderful fleet of London Rotaract Clubs' rafts make for the starting line.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shielding Themselves from the Cold and Wet Determined and Enthusiastic Rnli Supporters Assemble for the Naming Ceremony of the Lady of Hilbre By Hrh the Duke
Shielding themselves from the cold and wet, determined and enthusiastic RNLI supporters assemble for the naming ceremony of the Lady of Hilbre by HRH The Duke of Kent. Photo Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SWANAGE, DORSET.—In the month of January, 1875, a shipwreck took place on the Peveril Ledge, off this place, and it was only with difficulty, and by incurring much risk, that the crew were saved through the exertions of the Coast- guardmen...
Category: Articles
Zona, Pisces
RESCUE IN WORST WEATHER FOR 20 YEARS WHEN on 20th November, 1971, red flares were sighted in the area of the Wallet Spitway buoy, the Clacton, Essex, life-boat Valentine Wyndham- Quin was launched at 6.17 p.m. The wind was south south west...
I had little chance
Brian O’Carroll and his sister Kate were sailing a dinghy off County Wicklow when they capsized. Here, in Brian's own words, is their story.
We were making good speed towards Mizen Head and had intended to round it and...
Category: Articles