LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Harvest Queen
Selsey, Sussex.—During the evening of the 15th November the coastguard reported red flares four miles S.W.
from the look-out. A strong W.S.W.
breeze was blowing, with a moderate swell. The motor life-boat...
The Lymington to Yarmouth Ferry, Farringford
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - At 8.20 p.m. on 27th February, 1967, British Railways reported that the Lymington to Yarmouth ferry was aground in the Lymington river and asked for the lifeboat's assistance in taking off the...
A Dinghy (1)
Girvan, Ayrshire - At 12.20 p.m. on 21st September, 1969, the coastguardtold the life-boat coxswain that a distress signal had been seen from a small boat off Lendalfoot. The lifeboat Inbhear Mor, on temporary duty at the station, slipped...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BALLYCOTTON, Co. CORK.—A new Life- boat has been placed here, one of the 34 feet 10-oared class having been substi- tuted for the smaller boat at this Station.
The new Life-boat is named the Oliver Qoldsmith, it having...
Category: Articles
Clarke, Chapman & Company Ltd
CLARKE CHAPMAN MARINE A U X I L I A R I E S FOR LIFE-BOAT STATIO N S This illustrates one of our electrically driven winches as supplied to the Tynemouth Lifeboat Station for hauling up the life-boat.
Many other winches of...
Category: Advertisement
College principal
Geraldine Grainger is the RNLI’s new College Principal and Head of Training. Geraldine joined the charity from the John Lewis Partnership, where she was responsible for the training, learning and development of 28,000 partners. She also has...
Category: Articles
S.S. Lieutenant Robert Mory
JANUARY 15TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
The coastguard reported a steamer ashore half a mile N.E. of Palling, and at 10.10 A.M.
the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was launched. A strong easterly wind was...
Lighthouse Mission
FOR a difficult operation which involved taking an injured lighthouse keeper, who weighed 21 stone, off the Beachy Head lighthouse Coxswain Bassett, of Eastbourne, has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum.
Category: Services
The Ex-Life-Boat King John
MOTOR BOAT TOW At 11.15 p.m. on 23rd November, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor boat had broken down two to three miles north-east of Dungeness. The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched at 11.35 in a...
Ishbara
TOW FOR CONVERTED LIFE-BOAT Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 12.38 on the afternoon of the 2nd June, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a converted R.N.L.I.
life-boat, ketch-rigged, was showing distress...