LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Blyth Spirit
Tow across the bar THE HARBOUR MASTER at Soilthwold, Roger Trigg, who is also senior helmsman of the town's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat, The Quiver, was contacted by the fishing vessel Blyth Spirit on the evening of Thursday...
The New Launching Tractor
By Captain Howard F. I. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life boats.
LAST year the Institution completed the first of a new type of tractor for launching Life-boats off flat beaches. It was built as the result of...
Category: Inaugurations
Penlee Life-Boat Approaches French Crabber
(see page 286). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (34)
MARCH 12TH. - GALWAY BAY. A British aeroplane had crashed in Galway Bay, and the five members of her crew had baled out.
Two of them were found, but the others seemed to have been blown far out to sea, and the motor...
Two Life-Boat Families. The Wiggs, of Kessingland, and the Stone-Houses, of Teesmouth and Redcar
THE Institution, at the end of last year, awarded a special Vellum to Mr.
Edward Wigg, sen., of Kessingland, in recognition of the exceptional services which he and his family have rendered to the Life-boat Service. He...
Category: Articles
Two Naming Ceremonies In Scotland. Aith, Shetlands, and Broughty Ferry, Dundee
Aith, Shetland*, and Droughty Ferry, Dundee.
Two naming ceremonies of new motor life-boats took place in Scotland during September, at Aith in the Shetlands and Broughty Ferry, Dundee. Both life- boats were the gifts of...
Category: Inaugurations
New Committee of Management Members
THE Committee of Management of the Institution welcomes five new mem- bers.
Rear-Admiral K. St. B. Collins, C.B., O.B.E., D.S.C., R.N. (Retd.), was Hydrographer of the Navy from 1955 to 1960, when he retired from the Royal...
Category: Committee
Contents
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 53 Number 525 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Assistant Editor: GILL MACE Editorial Assistant: MARY GYOPARI Advertisement...
Category: Contents
Dizzy Dunlop and Caboceer
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.
—During a dense fog on the 6th of April it was reported that a schooner was in distress on Atherfield Ledge. The crew of the Life-boat Worcester Cadet were summoned, and at 8.55 P.M. the...
The Hayling Island Atlantic 21 Lifeboat
The Hayling Island Atlantic 21 lifeboat - an easy boat to manhandle if necessary should she run aground when working in the shallow waters of the harbours in the area.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs