LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Supertaff
Three rescued after yacht is rolled in storm force windsA Courtmacsherry Harbour trocious weather conditions greeted Courtmacsherry Harbour's Trent class lifeboat when she put to sea on Saturday 24 October, headed for a yacht which had...
Nina and An Mordros, and Optimist
Busy afternoon for Amble Amble's Waveney class Margaret Graham had a busy afternoon on 14 August, attending three calls in three hours.
She was first launched at 1207 to the fishing boat Nina with ten anglers aboard.<...
LEWIS CREESE
LEWIS CREESE
COXSWAIN | ANGLE
On a shout like this, when the crew has been woken up in the early hours of the morning and they’re tired, it helps that everything is already second nature to them. For Jordan (Tuckwell,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Grace Darling
THROUGH the generous gift of Lady John Joicey-Cecil the Royal National Life-boat Institution has lately come into the possession of a very precious relic connected with our Island story, and one singularly appropriate to the humane and...
Category: Articles
Prince Ivanhoe (1)
Prince Ivanhoe THE PLEASURE STEAMER Prince Ivanhoe with a crew of 18 and 450 passengers was on a cruise from Minehead to the Welsh Coast on Monday August 3, 1981, when, at 1536. she struck anunderwater obstruction off Port...
The Coxswain and His Crew Put Off to the Rescue on Receipt of a Distress Call Received Through Hm Coastguard
The coxswain and his crew put off to the rescue on receipt of a distress call received through HM Coastguard.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Flying Boat
St. Marys, Scilly Isles.—13th Octo- * ber, 1939. The coastguard had re- ported a message from the R.A.F. that a flying boat had come down approx- imately fifty miles to the west of Scilly Isles, but shortly after the life-boat was launched...
Listings
Anniversaries Admiral Wid Graham - former RNLI Director, 80th birthday Bridlington lifeboat station - 200th anniversary Kyle of Lochalsh lifeboat station - 10th anniversary Appointments Martin Ashworth - Moelfre Deputy Launching Authority...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
Eastern Division 141 hour service in severe gale A MESSAGE FROM THE YACHT Coronade to the Sunk Pilot Cutter, saying that a red flare had been sighted southward, in the direction of the Long Sand, was intercepted by Walton Coastguard at 1621...
Category: Services
Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 8
THESE remains but one type of Life-boat to which reference is necessary to com- plete the description of those boats which are propelled either by sail or oars. The Cromer type bears so strong a resemblance to the Liverpool Life- boats that...
Category: Articles