LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Off Conway Castle
IN the Spring number there was a photograph of the Llandudno life-boat, off Conway Castle. This photograph was reproduced by very kind per- mission of the North Wales Weekly News, and we regret that no acknow- ledgment was made under the...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Service In Japan
THE Imperial Japanese Society for Saving Life from Shipwreck (Dainippon Teikoku Suinam Kiusai Kwai) was established in 1879, but was not incorporated by Imperial Charter until 1899. At the present time the Society has 17 stations on the...
Category: Articles
Safety at Sea With Pyrotechnics-Part 2 Distress Signals and Procedures
HAVING decided which are the correct distress signals to be carried according to the size of craft concerned and her particular marine activities (Schermuly's complete range of officially approved marine distress pyrotechnics was...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat - In Danger's Hour By Patrick Howarth
Lifeboat - in Danger's Hour by Patrick Howarth and published by Hamlyns was 'launched' at Eastbourne last April, when the author (r.} presented a copy to Coxwain/ Mechanic Ronald Wheeler. Chosen by the Booksellers Association as... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
H.M. Trawler Kingston Cairngorm
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BEMBRIDGE JANUARY 29TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT During the afternoon an easterly blizzard was raging at Bembridge in the Isle of Wight.
The wind had been blowing hard for several days and a very...
Past and Present
25 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, June 1965 issue SIX NEW STEEL LIFEBOATS After intensive trials extending over nearly a year the Institution has decided, in principle, to build six 44- foot steel life-boats. They will be to the...
Category: Articles
The Herring Boat Concord
Shortly after midnight on the 8-9th August, the Coxswain was informed by the Coastguard that a fishing-boat was ashore on the rocks behind Keith Inch.
There was a heavy sea running with a strong N.W. breeze at the time, and...
Rescue In Snow Squalls
COXSWAIN JOHN KING, of Bridlington, has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for the rescue of four men from the motor fishing vessel Normanby on 6th January, 1967.
At 5.37 on the afternoon of...
Category: Services
The S.S. Urlana and Thurland Castle (1)
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BARRA ISLAND SEPTEMBER 5TH. - BARRA ISLAND, AND STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
At 7 o’clock in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore on Idrigill Point on the Isle of Skye, 40...
This impressive carnival float—it depicts a 48-foot 6-inch class of life-boat—was a big attraction at the end of last year at the Bridgwater, Somerset, carnival. It was entered by Mr. D. B. Frost of the Black Horse Inn, Bridgwater.
This impressive carnival float—it depicts a 48-foot 6-inch class of life-boat—was a big attraction at the end of last year at the Bridgwater, Somerset, carnival.
It was entered by Mr. D. B. Frost of the Black Horse Inn,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs