LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Barges Five Sisters and Scotsman
NOV. 26TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
At 11.33 A.M. a barge was flying distress signals near the Jenkin Buoy. A westerly gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. At 11.55 A.M. the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil...
Amateur Life-Boatman's Gallantry
WHILE the engineers of the Institution were engaged in constructing the new launching Slipway at Porthdinllaen, in Carnarvonshire, for the Motor Life-boat which was sent to that Station in March last, the foreman in charge of the works Mr. T...
Category: Articles
Summer Sands
Sounds of music float along; Seas flow in with summer song ; For the sands are gay, and children play Where storms rage fierce on wintry day.
" A penny in the elot—H peril from the sea !" A coin from me, a coin...
Category: Poetry
The 28Ft Yacht Josse Is Returned to Safe Harbour After Her Ordeal
The 28ft yacht Josse is returned to safe harbour after her ordeal. Photo: Michael Pen. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
St. Ives Memorial: The Mayor's Fund
ON 23rd April a memorial tablet to the seven men of the St. Ives crew, who lost their lives on 23rd January last, was unveiled at the St. Ives Seamen's Institution by Mr. N. A.
Beechman, M.C., M.P. for St....
Category: Articles
To the Rescue of a Yacht
The Southwold Motor Life-boat pulling out to the help of the Daman's, of Lowestoft (see opposite Dage).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Rowing Boats Ann and Flying Dutchman
CREWS RESCUED FROM TWO ROWING BOATS Moelfre, Anglesey. At 5.40 on the evening of the 5th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the rowing boats Ann and Flying Dutchman of Benllech were in distress five miles south...
Top Right: the Troon Lifeboat Crew
Top right: The Troon lifeboat crew, shown trialling the yellow Mkl Gecko helmet, are nearly unanimous in favour of the new helmet.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Irb Launches on Service During the Months June, July and August, 1970
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aberdovey, Merionethshire Abersoch, Caernarvonshire Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire Amble, Northumberland Arran (Lamlash), Buteshire Atlantic College, Glamorganshire Bangor, Co. Down Barmouth, Merionethshire Barrow,...
Category: Services
The Hull Form of the Waveney Is Shown Clearly As the First Uk-Built Boat (44-002)
The hull form of the Waveney is shown clearly as the first UK-built boat (44-002) undergoes her righting trial in October 1966. - View image in PDF
Note the flat sections aft to promote planing.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs