LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Westwinds
Angle, Pembrokeshire - At 2.28 p.m.
on 29th July, 1968, the coastguard reported that a yacht was in difficulties twenty miles south south west of St. Ann's head. The life-boat Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth of Leeds...
A Dinghy (3)
Skegness, Lincolnshire - At 1.37 p.m.
on 29th August, 1969, the coastguard reported that a dinghy had fired a red flare about one mile east of Skegness pier. The life-boat Charles Fred Grantham was launched at 2 o'clock...
St.Helier Jersey August 23 1987:
ST HELIER, JERSEY, August 23, 1987: the 44ft Waveney class lifeboat Thomas James King takes in tow the 48ft cabin cruiser La Belle Dame after a MAYDAY alert, when the Shoreham-based vessel hit the Hinguette reef at 1418 and began to sink.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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TORBAY, Sunday January 12, 1986: a 15-year-old boy had fallen 100 ft down a cliff to the south of Berry Head. A coastguard cliff rescue team had gone to his assistance and Torbay's 54 ft Arun class lifeboat, Edward Bridges, launched so...
Vip Launch:
VIP launch: the Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, was given the task of striking the releasing pin to set Douglas lifeboat on her way down the slipway when he visited the station in June. Douglas, on the Isle of Man, was where the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Gardens of the Former Home of Lady Astor of Hever
Tlie gardens of the former home of Lady Astor of Hever were opened to the public for the first time since 1961 in April to raise funds for Cemaes Bay branch. Cestyll Ornamental Gardens at Cemlyn, Anglesey, are now owned by the Central... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Four Admiralty Trawlers
DECEMBER 8TH. - MONTROSE, ANGUS.
At 5.15 in the evening the coastguard at Usan reported that four Admiralty trawlers were being bombed by enemy aeroplanes two miles to the S.E., and the motor life-boat The Good Hope put out...
An Aeroplane (60)
AUGUST 14TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 12.15 P.M., during an air-raid, a British aeroplane was seen from the life-boathouse to crash about three miles to the northward.
A westerly breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The crew...
The Dredging Vessel Hopper No. 4
DECEMBER 18TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO. DUBLIN. At 2.10 in the afternoon a telephone message was received from the Bailey Lighthouse, Howth, that Hopper No.
4, a dredging vessel belonging to the Dublin Port and Docks Board, had...
The Admiralty Motor Vessel No. 649
SEPTEMBER 17TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. Shortly after one in the afternoon information was received that a vessel was in difficulties, and later it was learned that she was showing a distress signal. The weather was fine and the sea smooth....