LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
From Deck of 70-001 As Shortly After Dawn on February 6 She and St.Pierre Approached Race Off North of Lundy: Wind Force 10 to 11 Tide Setting About 4 Knots Again
From deck of 70-001 as, shortly after dawn on February 6, she and St. Pierre approached race off north of Lundy: wind, force 10 to 11, tide setting about 4 knots against wind. As 70-001 begins descent down front of wave, tow line, almost bar... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Introducing the Shannon class lifeboat
We’re delighted to announce that our next all-weather lifeboat class, due on station in 2013, will be called the Shannon. We’ve been naming lifeboats after rivers or stretches of water for 45 years, but this is the first time the name of an...
Category: Articles
A Canoe
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 8.21 P.M.
on the 17th July, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard that a canoe, with a boy on board, had capsized off Ness Point. A gentle S.W.
breeze was blowing, but the...
An Aeroplane (31)
AUGUST 3RD. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. An aeroplane had crashed, but her crew of two were rescued by a naval sloop. - Rewards, £3 16s..
The Sharp End
Launching a D class from an open beach can be a very wet business -this is Withernsea's inflatable on the wrong end of a dumping breaker. And this is just the beginning of a lifeboat service…. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Marguerite
TWO LIFE-BOATS AND A STEAMER TO THE RESCUE North Sunderland, and Boulmer, North- umberland.—At 4.36 in the afternoon of the 17th of January, 1948, the Seahouses coastguard telephoned to North Sunderland that the local fishing yawl...
The Tone Vale Lodge,
The Tone Vale Lodge, based at the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (RAOBJ club at Taunton, raises cash for a different charity each year. Members normally aim to raise £200 in the course of a year but in 2000 managed to break all... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Lightfoot
NOV. 24TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
At 11.36 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the S.S. Lightfoot, of Newcastle, had stranded S.W. of Longsand Buoy. A S.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. At...
A Fine Service By the New Thurso Life-Boat
A FORTNIGHT after her Inaugural Cere- mony the new Thurso Motor Life-boat rescued her first lives.
On 28th September last, the 25,000- ton battle-ship H.M.S. Marlboroitgh was at anchor in Thurso Bay. She sent off a cutter...
Category: Services
Inshore Rescue Boats on Service
Launches on service from 1st July to 3ist August, 1965, which resulted in the rescue of people in difficulties are described in chronological order below.
Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 5.25 p.m. on 2nd July, 1965, a small...
Category: Services