LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An American Yacht
Yacht owner injured by boom Weymouth South West Division A service to an American yacht by Weymouth's 54ft Arun class lifeboat Tony Vandervell has led to a letter of thanks to the station's honorary medical adviser Dr Peter Gibbons...
Income and Expenditure for 1926
A PULL statement of accounts is published each year by the Institution and is printed in its Annual Report. In spite of the fact that this has always been done for a century past, two criticisms of the Institution are made periodically. The...
Category: Accounts
When An Emergency Arises In a Particular Area of Sea, a Print-Out of Amver Vessels In a Specified Area Is Available In Minutes. This Information Is Then Passed to the Emergency Organisation Req
When an emergency arises in a particular area of sea, a print-out of AMVER vessels in a specified area is available in minutes. This information is then passed to the emergency organisation requesting it.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Brita, a Shetland Type Motor Boat, and Angling Boat Ondermining
Triple call-out NOVEMBER 1, 1986 proved to be a cold day, with a partly overcast sky and anorth-westerly wind, force 5 to 6 blowing along the Essex coast.
At 1107 Thames coastguard alerted the deputy launching authority of...
Cymba
Sailor rescued as yacht is driven on to lee shoreThe coxswain and helmsman of Whitby's two lifeboats, the 44ft Waveney White Rose of Yorkshire and the D class inflatable Gwynaeth, have both been awarded bronze medals for gallantry for...
(Left) a Launch By Horses at Brooke
(left) A launch by horses at Brooke, Isle of Wight. Pulling lifeboats were stationed at Brook from I860 to 1937, when the station was closed.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ireland Community News
Bundoran
Sun shines on named after. soapbox race
Bundoran’s seventh annual soapbox race took place in June, with crowds turning out to marvel at people’s engineering triumphs – and chuckle at their...
Category: Articles
Around the Coast
SECOND OF THE STEEL HULLED 18 knot fast afloat Thames class lifeboats, Elizabeth Ann, 50-002, recently completed her first comparative trials with the prototype, 50-001, and with an Arun class boat, 52-02. Although only light to moderate...
Category: Articles
Increase In Widows' Pensions
BY a fleet order dated 15th June, 1939, the Admiralty increased the pensions of the widows of naval ratings as from the 1st June. The Institution pays to the widows and other dependents of life-boatmen who lose their lives on service the...
Category: Articles
John Eardley Wilmot Bryan
• It is also with regret that we report the death of John Eardley Wilmot Bryan, Great Yarmouth and Gorleston lifeboat coxswain/mechanic from 1967-76 and a member of the crew from 1956..
Category: Obituaries