LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Zircon
On the bar THE SERVICE BY FWLLHELi lifeboat and Criccieth ILB to the yacht Zircon during the early hours of September 1, 1977, was reported in the winter 1977/78 issue of THE LIFEBOAT. Zircon, with four people on board, had run aground...
The Folio Society
(including postage &. pac Empires of the ancient near east is the definitive, lavishly illustrated chronicle of the four monumental civilisations that prospered between the end of the Stone Age and the advent of Hellenistic...
Category: Advertisement
Brett
Margate, Kent - At 2.35 p.m. on 31st October, 1968, a flare was sighted by the honorary secretary and the coxswain about a haJf mile north east of Margate jetty. The lifeboat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) with her crew already on...
Hadiotis
At 10.30 A.M. on the 20th | May the Coastguard reported that the i Cockle Lightvessel was firing warning ; guns. A little later the St. Nicholas i Lightvessel also fired, and it was decided to send out the Motor Life-boat...
Pictures for Pagers
Pictures for pagers Minehead lifeboat crew held an exhibition in aid of their pager fund, with the help of North Devon artist Ian Hudson.
Ian donated one of his original paintings as a prize in the draw and also donated 10%... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Leader
On the 8th January one of the crew of the ketch Leader, of Bideford, went mad whilst the vessel was lying at anchor in St. Tudwells roads. The master of the ketch, having locked the man in his cabin, came ashore for assistance, but the man...
Mariet
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 24th of August, 1957, the coastguard reported that smoke signals had been observed about seven miles west-south-west of Clacton pier.
The life-boat II.C.J., on temporary...
A Starving Crew
ON 27th October, when the motor life-boat from Pwllheli was out on practice in half a gale, with a heavy sea running, she was hailed by the steamer Marjorie, of Liverpool, anchored in St. Tudwal's Roads. The Marjorie was on her way to...
Category: Services
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7* feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-cases, which give extra buoyancy...
Category: Articles
The New Invergordon Crewroom.
The new Invergordon crewroom. a purpose-built shore facility adjacent to the pier, was opened on 13 June when His Grace the Duke of Atholl, convenor of the Scottish Lifeboat Council, (pictured second left) unveiled a plaque to commemorate... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs