LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Catamaran
One cat twice HM COASTGUARD informed Coxswain Thomas Cocking of St Ives lifeboat station at noon on Saturday August 16, 1980, that a small catamaran being sailed singlehanded had capsized two miles east of the station. Coxswain Cocking made...
The Cyprus-Registered Cargo Vessel Retriever (1)
TWO BOATS AT SEA FOR A TOTAL OF 13 HOURS Escort for listing cargo boat in 70 knot winds Sennen Cove and Clovelly - South West Division Sennen Cove's relief Rother The Davys Family was launched in winds gusting up to 71 knots on 25 March...
Capsizing Tests on 44-002
As we closed for press the life-boat 44-002 John F. Kennedy, the first of the Institution's fleet of six 44-ft. steel life-boats, was undergoing trials at Lowestoft, Suffolk. Here she is shown during capsizing and self-righting tests at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
ElectroMotion
An ElectroMotion mobility vehicle " is proven to make life better affected and changed their lives.
That's the conclusive result of our recent survey of 1,000 users, who were asked for their views on how their...
Category: Advertisement
LIFEBOAT LOTTERY
WINTER 2017 RESULTS
Congratulations to Mrs DM Elvin from Oxfordshire who won our first prize of £5,000 cash.
OUR OTHER WINNERS WERE:
2ND PRIZE: £2,000
Mrs PA Andrew,...
Category: Articles
Press On K. 263
Stronsay, Orkneys. At 11.20 on the night of the 17th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that red rockets had been sighted to the south-east in the direction of Papa Westray. The life-boat John Gellatly Hyndman...
Pilgrimage to Fraserburgh
THE life-boat station at Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, took part in a very interesting event during July—the welcome which was given to men and women from Fraserburgh living in Canada, the United States, South Africa and various places of...
Category: Articles
Miss E. M. Jordan, of Dover
The Institution has lost, by the death of Miss E.'M. Jordan, of Dover, in April of this year, one of its latest, but one of its most enthusiastic honorary workers.
She became the Honorary Secretary of the Dover...
Category: Obituaries
Above: 10 May 1927. An Underground Repair Worker Wears His London Life-boat Day Badge With Pride
Above: 10 May 1927. - View image in PDF
An underground repair worker wears his London Life-boat Day badge with pride photo: London News Agency photos Ltd. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Drago, of Genoa
On the afternoon of the 20th March this coast was suddenly visited by a tremendous storm from the N.N.W., and shortly afterwards information arrived that a large vessel was in a most precarious position off Morte Stone, a dan- gerous reef...