LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gustaf
CRESSWELL.—At 2 A.M. on the 5th January, during a gale at S.E., the steamer Gustaf, of Gothenburg, in Sweden, was wrecked in Dunridge Bay, near Cresswell, on the coast of Northumberland. On the lights of the vessel being observed, the crew...
High Seas
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
St Bees - North Division St Bees lifeboat station is just to the south of St Bees South Head, and faces to the west, towards the Isle of Man.
The shallow...
Category: Articles
Functional Clothing
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suppliers of weather clothing to the R.N.L.I., to leaders in constructional and off-shore oil activity and to the United Kingdom television industry...
Category: Advertisement
Don’t Know
At 8.15 A.M. on the 17th July, the cutter Don't Know, of Yarmouth, was observed in distress in the roads abreast the station, and the Life-boat Hugh Taylor was launched.
When she arrived alongside the fishing- boat the...
Signs of life
2 July: Dunbar, East Lothian When Dunbar lifeboat crew sped to a sinking fishing boat, they feared they had arrived too late – the fishing boat’s bow was all that could be seen. Crew Member Alistair Punton jumped...
Category: Articles
Two Scottish Inaugural Ceremonies. Campbeltown (Argyllshire); Troon (Ayrshire)
Campbeltown (Argyllshire) ; Troon (Ayrshire).
DURING September tte Inaugural Cere- monies took place of two new Motor Life-boats on tte West Coast of Scot- land, at Campbeltown, Argyllstire, and Troon,...
Category: Inaugurations
Take Me to Your Lifeboat...
Take me to your lifeboat...
Hunstanton lifeboatmen examine what at first they thought was a UFO. The huge 'floating spaceship', fitted with sophisticated equipment and electronics, was recovered during a call-out in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Roaring water
Two fishermen faced the reality of the most dangerous profession as they drifted off Co Cork
Just before 9am on Wednesday 22 June, as many of the lifeboat and shore volunteers of Baltimore were...
Category: Articles
The "Life-Boat Saturday" Movement
ALL friends of the Life-boat cause will be gratified at the announcement that H.R.H. the DUKE or YORK, our sailor prince, who has for several years been a Vice-Patron of the Institution, has now graciously accepted the post of President of...
Category: Articles
A Car
Car over cliff LATE ON THE EVENING OF THURSDAY JULY 24, 1986, the coastguard cliff rescue team were called to Port Soderick Bay, 2'/2 miles south of Douglas on the Isle of Man. A car with four people inside had driven over a 330 ft cliff...