LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailing Club Rescue Boat
Rescuers rescued Dun Laoghaire's D class inflatable was involved in a service at the very limits for the class of lifeboat when she went to the aid of a capsized safety boat on 26 May 1993.
The inflatable had been on...
Aberdovey: Long Life Iii
Aberdovey: Long Life III being returned to her boathouse after a demonstration launch on Monday May 28, the day of her official handing over and dedication. The Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat was paid for out of funds raised in the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Roy Clemo
PENLEE, Friday February 14, 1986: at 0630 Penlee's 52 ft Arun class lifeboat, Mabel Alice, with Coxswain Ken Thomas at the helm, set out in a force 10 east by southerly storm and poor visibility. The Guernsey registered coaster, Roy...
Bundoran: TWO GENEROUS DONATIONS
A Tyrone family rescued by Bundoran crew last year have returned to the lifeboat station to deliver the proceeds from a successful fundraising event. Ryan, Fianche, Cahir, Beth and Marc McCallion from Drumquin raised €5,000 through a coffee...
Category: Articles
Brian Jeffrey, a crew member at the Mumbles, shows a line-throwing rocket gun to members of the 2nd Swansea Valley (Clydach) Scouts, who, with a variety of events, raised £1,007 for the station. photograph by courtesy of the Western Mail.
Brian Jeffrey, a crew member at The Mumbles, shows a line-throwing rocket gun to members of the 2nd Swansea Valley (Clydach) Scouts, who, with a variety of events, raised £1,007 for the station. photograph by courtesy of the Western... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Naval Landing Craft (1)
NOVEMBER 17TH.. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
At 9.5 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that a naval landing craft between Hastings and Fairlight was making bad weather. Seventeen minutes later he reported distress signals from...
Aries
SWANAGE.—On the llth November the Swanage Life-boat, Charlotte Mary, was the means of saving the smack Aries, of Cowes. That vessel was dragging her anchors in Swanage Bay, when the Lifeboat went to her aid through a heavy sea, and placing...
Hannah and Joseph
LLANDDWYN, ANGLESEY.—On the 25th June the Life-boat John Gray Bell was launched to the assistance of the schooner Hannah and Joseph, of Liverpool, ashore on Carnarvon bar, which vessel, after some hours' hard work on the part of the...
Saraca
SELSEY, SUSSEX.—The Four Sisters Lifeboat was launched about 5 P.M. on the 13th November to the aid of the barque Saraca, of Glasgow, which had stranded on the Outer Owers during a moderate gale of wind from the E. and a very heavy sea. The...
Don
. At 5.30 A.M., OB the 14th February, the schooner Don, of Aberdeen, bound to Sunderland with chalk, stranded on the South Barber Sand during a strong S.
wind and a heavy sea. The No. 2 Lifeboat promptly went to her...