LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fishing Research Motor Vessel William Herdman (1)
Port Erin, and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.
—About 4.30 in the afternoon, on the 6th of September, 1950, the Ramsey coastguard telephoned the Port Erin life-boat station that the fishing re- search motor vessel William...
Two to One.
On October nth., 1941, the total number of lives rescued by life-boats since the beginning of the war was 4131. That is the exact number which they rescued in the whole of the last war, from 4th. August 1914 to nth. November 19i8. In no...
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Who Are These Heros?
• She is ex-lifeboat R.A. Colby Cubbin No.1 (ON 929), a 46ft motor Watson lifeboat. She was stationed at Douglas, Isle of Man, between 1956 and 1988 and during her RNLI service launched 115 times saving 95 lives. She was refitted in 1975... - View image in PDF
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New Life-Boat Engines. The First Life-Boat to Be Fitted With Wireless
By Captain Howard F- J. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.
IN 1922 the Institution, which, had then had nearly twenty years of experience with Motor Life-boats, designed an engine to meet the special and...
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The Spanish Trawlers Monte Izankun and Costa da Isolda
Trawlers aided TWO SPANISH trawlers in difficulties two miles north of Skelligs rocks—one had a rope fouling her propeller and the other had engine trouble—on November 9, 1972, led to the Valentia, Co. Kerry, lifeboat being...
Walmer: (Below) Hampshire Rose With Her Crew and the Lifeboat People of Kent and Hampshire As Well As Neighbouring Stations Who Had Gathered for Her Naming Music
Walmer: (Below) Hampshire Rose with her crew and the lifeboat people of Kent and Hampshire, as well as neighbouring stations, who had gathered for her naming.
Music was by the Junior Band of the Royal Marines and fanfares... - View image in PDF
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The American Forces Tug No. 672 and a Ship's Boat
SEPTEMBER 15TH. - THE MUMBLES, AND BARRY DOCK, GLAMORGANSHIRE.
The American Forces tug N o . 6 7 2 had grounded on the Tusker Rock, off Porthcawl, but she overturned before the life-boat reached the scene. Eight of her...
As Lady Leaver Named the Prototype Tyne Fast Slipway
As Lady Leaver named the prototype Tyne fast slipway lifeboat RNLB City of London, she pressed a button and the bottle of champagne broke on deck.. - View image in PDF
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Three Times the Target for Tall Ships Race
Mike Andrews aboard his 12 ton Gauntlet Heather in St Katharine Dock, London before the start of the Tall Ships Race. - View image in PDF
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Eclipse
FORMBY, LANCASHIRE.—The schooner Eclipse, of Peel, Isle of Man, bound from Fleetwood for Liverpool, with gravel, was seen aground on the most dangerous part of Taylor's Bank, having stranded there in misty weather, on the morning of...