LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
To the Help of a Submarine
The submarine "Universal" broke down in Cardigan Bay on the night of February 3rd. in a gale with a rough sea running and drifted up the bay for 60 miles. Four life-boats went out to her help, the St. David's boat, which helped...
Category: Articles
RNLI FAMILY: THE LIFE OF THE CHARITY
Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
Happy retirement, Elsie
Elsie Miller, Honorary Secretary at Ramsgate RNLI, is stepping down from her role after celebrating an impressive 64 years of volunteering at...
Category: Articles
British Sub-Aqua Club
These men are about to undertake an eight mile underwater snorkel swim along the Tees between Yarm Bridge and the river road, Stockton. They are (I to r) Ian Turner, Bob Dodds, Richard Linton and Derek Saunders.
Of the 50... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ross Corr
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 7.25 on the evening of the 9th of March, 1960, Valentia radio station informed the honorary secretary that the fishing vessel Ross Corr had broken down in the mouth of Ballinskelligs Bay. At 7.50 the life-boat Peter...
Left: Keeping Watch on a Busy Beach
Left: Keeping Watch On A Busy Beach. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Herga
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At about 4 P.M. on the 3rd October, 1939, the coastguard reported that a motor yacht, lying about two miles S.W. by S.
of Walton Pier, was flying distress signals. A moderate easterly gale was...
Guillemot
AUGUST 3lST. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
At 10 P.M. lamp signals were seen from a position two miles E.S.E. of Small Saltee Island, and the motor life-boat Ann Isabella Pyemont was launched at 11.15 P.M.
A...
Welly good rescue
NEW QUAY | 10 JULY
A 9-year-old schoolgirl who got trapped under giant rocks at Aberaeron Beach, was freed by New Quay lifeboat crew. The girl, in welly boots, became stuck during a game of...
Category: Articles
Offshore Lifeboat Services June July and August 1979
Aldeburgh, Suffolk August 9 Amble, Northumberland July 4 Angle, Dyfed June 2, 24, July 3, 8 and August 15 (twice) Anstruther, Fife June 15 and August 28 Appledore, North Devon June 10 and July 31 Arklow, Wicklow July 12, 18, 21 and August 16...
Category: Services
May Lily
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 11.55 on the morning of the 15th of January, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from Flamborough that the fishing boat May Lily, of Scarborough, with a crew of four, was in distress...