LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Trawler
25th Janu- ary. Wireless distress signals were picked up from a trawler which was thought, from the strength of the signals, to be between Barra Head and the Island of Tiree. She was actually near Tory Island, off the Irish coast, and this...
The Lifeboat
The lifeboat which now goes out to help fishing boats at Whitby is the 44ft Waveney The White Rose of Yorkshire. The Waveney class lifeboat, introduced from the US Coast Guard in 1964, was the first of the RNLI's 'fast afloat'... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Left the Dutch Have Developed a 106M Rigid Inflatable
Left. The Dutch have developed a 10.6m rigid inflatable which has been in service since October 1990. The Valentijn class is jet powered and steered by 'buckets' over the outlets. She has been designed specifically lor the shallow... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (78)
AUGUST 11TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. The R.A.F.
reported a Blenheim aircraft down in the sea three miles off the coast between Yarmouth and Lowestoft, but the life-boats found...
Woollen Comforts.
The Institution has received, as voluntary gifts, a great number of knitted woollen comforts of all kinds for its crews. It was thus possible to accumulate a large reserve of such comforts at Headquarters, and supplies have been sent to the...
Category: Articles
Finance In 1942.: Expenditure.
Expenditure in 1942 was £291,486. That was £12,261 more than in 1941, but much less than in a year of peace. The reason is that while in the last year of peace 16 new motor life-boats were sent to the coast, last year not one - out...
Category: Articles
A Smack
On the 19th October the Llandwyn life-boat put off to the assistance of a smack which was dragging her anchor off the south coast of the Island of Anglesea, the wind blowing a gale from the eastward at the time. With the aid of the...
Happy People: Rescued Two and Saved Boat
TWO MEN had been spending Sunday January 16 fishing off the western end of the Isle of Wight in an open 17ft dory. When, at 1530, they started to prepare for the return passage to Poole, their outboard engine failed. They were reported...
Category: Articles
Four Men Saved from Trawler
FOR the rescue of four men from a trawler on the evening of 16th November, 1969, Coxswain John King of Bridlington has been accorded the thanks of the R.N.L.I. inscribed on vellum.
At 6.5 p.m. that evening Mr. A. W. Dick,...
Category: Services
Vineta (1)
Lifeboatman overboard during long service to stricken coaster Members of the Scarborough lifeboat crew hauled their own Second Coxswain, John Trotter, to safety aboard their new Mersey class lifeboat Fanny Victoria Wilkinson and Frank Stubbs...