LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Yachtsmen Brought Off the Goodwins
The Walmer life-boat towed in this yacht. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Black Sue and Atlanta
Howth, Co. Dublin - At 11.48 p.m.
on loth June, 1966, a yacht was reported in difficulties between Portrane and Lambay. There was a gentle north easterly breeze with a corresponding sea.
The life-boat...
Brian Williams a Shoreline Member Specialises In Making Scale Miniature Models of Individual Boats His Replicas Include Sailing Barges and Yachts and A/So Lifeboat
Brian Williams, a Shoreline member, specialises in making scale miniature models of individual boats. His replicas include sailing barges and yachts and a/so lifeboats, a number of which have been ordered for presentation to serving or... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Miss Mitzy
St. Helier, Jersey - At 10.3 a.m. on 29th July, 1969, air traffic control informed the assistant honorary secretary that an aircraft had sighted a yacht which was firing red flares to the north of the island. The lifeboat Elizabeth Rippon...
L'Espoir and Innocence
Arun saves yacht and skipper after long tow in severe weatherThe RNLI's chief of operations has written to thank the crews of both the Falmouth and Lizard lifeboats following a service involving both lifeboats on 16 February...
Dawn
AUGUST 27TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 6.30 in the evening the coxswain received a telephone call from the Colwyn Bay police that a boat was in distress one and a half miles off Colwyn pier.
A fresh...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1956
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Category: Services
White Heather
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.17 early on the morning of the 6th of August, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that the police had reported that shouts for help had been heard from a boat off the holiday camp south-west of the pier. At 2.22 the...
Ruan
Swanage, Dorset - At 9.57 p.m. on 23rd August, 1969, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Yewforest had reported that she was standing by the yacht Ruan which was in difficulties 14 miles south west of Anvil point...
Wallaroo
At 6.20 A.M.
on the 20th May information was received that the yacht Wallaroo, of Fleetwood, while taking part in a race to the Isle of Man, had had her main- mast smashed during heavy weather.
She had...