LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
List of Successes In the Essay Competition
London District (County Council Area and Middlesex).
Name.
Age.
School.
Elaine Bollard • Myf anwy Wilding .
Iris Speller .
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Category: Articles
Boy Ben
At 7.15 P.M.
on 19th September, when a fresh breeze was blowing from the S.W. accom- panied by a rough sea, the St. Nicholas light-vessel fired signals denoting that a vessel was in distress, and about the same time a...
A New Type of Life-Boat
FOLLOWING on the Barnett Twin-Screw Life-boat, and the Watson Cabin Life- boat, both Life-boats specially designed to be able to carry out services at a considerable distance from their Stations, the Institution has now designed another new...
Category: Articles
(Right) Bbc Radio Suffolk Talks Live from the Beach to the Duke of Atholl
(right) BBC Radio Suffolk talks live from the beach to The Duke of Atholl who, as Chairman at the time, first announced the fast lifeboat programme. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Newquay Fishing Vessel Talisman
St. Ives, Cornwall - At 9.12 p.m. on 22nd July, 1967, it was learnt that the Newquay fishing vessel Talisman was without fuel one mile off St. Agnes Head.
The life-boat Edgar, George Orlando and Eva Child was launched in a...
The Weather Ship Weather Adviser
Troon, Ayrshire. At 3.10 on the morn- ing of the 6th May, 1961, the meteoro- logical office at Prestwick airport in- formed the honorary secretary that the weather ship Weather Adviser, on passage to the Clyde, had reported a man overboard...
Two Motor Life-Boat Inaugural Launches: Arklow and Wick
Two Life-boat launches have taken place this year, those of the Motor Life- boats at Atklow in County Wicklow, and Wick in Caithness-shire.
The Arklow Boat, which is a Self- Righter, 40 feet by 10 feet 6 inches, ! fitted...
Category: Inaugurations
The Danish Motor Fishing Vessel Vestarland and Other Vessels
DECEMBER 29TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE. At 2.35 P.M. the coastguard reported that a vessel was attempting to enter harbour. A strong N.N.E. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. Other vessels could be seen outside, and it was decided to send out...
Oregon, of Stonehaven
on 7th April, 1861, saved 4 men from the schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven.
Lord Albemarle Speaking at the Inaugural Ceremony of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Motor Life-Boat
Lord Albemarle Speaking at The Inaugural Ceremony of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Motor Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs