LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Saturday Movement
SINCE the publication of the last number of our quarterly journal this popular movement has been extending its ope- rations north, south, east and west with marked success, and wherever a Life-boat Saturday demonstration or collection has...
Category: Articles
Nine People Rescued from Dutch Motor Vessel
A FINE service carried out in an easterly gale resulted in the rescue of all nine people on board a Dutch motor vessel. For this service Coxswain Walter Jonas Oxley, of Walton and Frinton, was awarded the bronze second service clasp for...
Category: Services
Caledonia
At 3.45 A.M.
on the 13th April the Coxswain of the Life-boat was called by the Coastguard, who stated that they thought a vessel was ashore. The Coxswain at once pro- ceeded to the beach, but he was unable to distinguish...
A Boat
Open fishing boat on rocks FISHING IN AN OPEN BOAT at about 0200 on Friday, July 9, 1976, Paul Power saw an 18' open boat go on the rocks near Falskirt Rock, 52° 08'N 7° 02'W, but, the area being filled with lobster...
A Speed Boat
Parachutist saved - with dry feetj Clacton lifeboatmen were involved in a most unusual service on 27 June, when they rescued a young woman parachutist while she was still airborne! The station's Atlantic 21 was called out when a...
Volant
During a whole N.N.E. gale with a very heavy sea on the morning of the 12th January the St. Nicholas Light-vessel commenced to fire signals of distress. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Mark Lane were promptly assembled and at 7 A.M....
Olivia Maersk
Barrow, Lancashire. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 17th December, 1961, the coxswain told the honorary secre- tary a local shipping agent had informed him that a member of the crew of the tanker Olivia Maersk of Copenhagen had fallen down a...
Humber's Most Famous Coxswain Mr Robert Cross (Right) on a Visit to the Humber Station In 1960 With (Centre) the Late Admiral Sir William Slayter Kcb Dso Dsc R
Huniher's most fa mini x CO.V.VM ain, Mr Robert Cross (right) on a visit to the Humber station in 1960 with (centre) th.' late Admiral Sir William Slayter, KCB, DSO, DSC, KNLI Committee of Management, and Coxswain Superintendent... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Protective Clothing
A GREAT PROBLEM is posed by protective clothing. 'Oilskins' made of a single layer of waterproof material will keep out the wet, but, because of the difference in temperature between the outside atmosphere and the body heat, and...
Category: Articles
Parliamentary Question on Helicopters
IN the House of Commons on the 14th of March, 1956, Mr. S. S. Awbery, M.P., for Bristol Central, asked the Minister of Transport and Civil Avia- tion how many attempts had been made by helicopter to assist ship- wrecked seamen; how many...
Category: Articles