LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (38)
NOVEMBER 18TH.. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 11.27 at night the coastguard reported that a fire had been seen nine to ten miles north-west of Kinnaird Head. A light wind was blowing, with a moderate sea, and the night was dark. The motor...
A Launch
Cadets and yachtsmen saved by Arun's Y-boat Force 5 onshore winds made life difficult for the crew of Troon's Arun City of Glasgow III when they had to launch their Y-boat twice during July to take survivors off a lee shore.
Peyton – the World’s Greatest Yachting Cartoonist
Peyton – the World’s Greatest
Yachting Cartoonist
by Dick Durham
Review by David Brann
Mike Peyton’s cartoons have wrung a wry smile from many a yachtsman. We may laugh or wince as...
Category: Articles
Ordnance Survey
A SUPERB ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP CENTRED ON YOUR HOME Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey Maps make perfect gifts How would you like a unique map created from the excellent Ordnance Survey Landranger series with your town or village in the centre?...
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Killed on Service. Death of the Scarborough Bowman
AT 11.14 on the morning of the 9th of December, 1951, the news came to the Scarborough life-boat station that a ship was sinking twenty-six and a half miles east by north of Scarborough.
She was a Dutch motor vessel of 499...
Category: Services
Shoreline/Storm Force
What's in a name? Shoreline. We have all become so used to using the name that it is difficult to stand back to examine whether it really does its job of describing the RNLI's membership scheme. In a recent survey carried out by...
Category: Articles
The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra-buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
Inshore Lifeboat Services December 1975 January and February 1976
Aberystwyth, Dyfed February 14.
Beaumaris, Gwynedd January 3 and February 15.
Conwy, Gwynedd February 7.
Eastney, Hampshire December 6, 30, January 7,25 and February 27.
Category: Services
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Notre Dame de la Mer
On the morning of the 19th of December, 1953, the Margate life-boat North Foreland. Civil Service No XI was launched in a rough sea to go to the help of the French trawler Notre Dame de la Mer. off Boulogne, which was being driven inshore...