LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Measurements Giving the Fore and Ajt Positions of All Transverse Members—Moulds Bulkheads and Timbers—Are Brought Down from Building Batten to Hog By Plumb Line
Measurements giving the fore and ajt positions of all transverse members—moulds, bulkheads and timbers—are brought down from building batten to hog by plumb line.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
St. Margaret
AID FOR PILOT CUTTER Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. The Preston Harbour Master telephoned the honorary secretary at 11.35 p.m. on 4th October, 1963, stating that the pilot cutter St. Margaret had broken down and was drifting with her...
An Aeroplane and H.M.S.. Patia (1)
APRIL 28TH. - BOULMER, AND AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND. On the night of Sunday, 27th April, it was learned at Boulmer that a German aeroplane had attacked a naval vessel and that the aeroplane had been brought down in flames. The coxswain and...
Another Motor Life-Boat Flotilla
IN the issue of this Journal for August, 1909, the adventures of a Life-boat flotilla on the voyage from London to the distant Orkneys were described.
Almost precisely two years afterwards another such flotilla, also...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
Cergio
HELP FOR YACHT AFTER TOW-ROPE PARTS St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 26th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Cergio was in tow of the French trawler Belle Garce thirteen...
Coxswain William Johnston, of Stromness
Coxswain William Johnston, of Stromness, in the Orkneys, died on 3rd February last, at the age of sixty-five.
He had retired only five months before on account of ill health. Appointed Coxswain in 1915, he...
Category: Obituaries
Obituaries
Obituaries It is with deep regret that we record the following deaths: April 1987 Captain Olaf Bjornstad, ex-Secretary General of the Norwegian Lifeboat Society. He was appointed an honorary life governor of the RNLI in...
Category: Obituaries
A Gallant Attempt
ON November 19th, 1947, an easterly gale was blowing at Broadstairs, and about mid-day three boys, on their way home from school, went on the pier to watch the breaking seas. One of them was seen standing by himself on the steps at the head...
Category: Articles
J.B.W.
Barrow, Lancashire - At 2.45 a.m.
on 28th September, 1966, news was received that an air search had been in operation since the previous day for the yacht J.B.W., which was overdue at Glasson dock on passage from the Isle...