LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
East Division Rescue in the surf SILVER MEDAL A CALL CAME THROUGH to Tyne Tees Coastguard at 0101 on the morning of Saturday April 15, 1986, that a disabled fishing vessel, the 60ft La Morlaye, with three men on board, was in danger of going...
Category: Services
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Sail the high seas on the most famous clipper ship of all time! Featuring a fully sculpted bolster.
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Ihe historic Cutty Sark set records in the wool trade between...
Category: Advertisement
Looking Down on the Model With and Forecabin
Looking down on the model with the superstructure removed: ll to r} whee/house, engine room and forecabin. It is also possible to see down through the forecabin sole into the bilges. Every detail of the machinery, pipework and wiring is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Provident friends
PENLEE | 29 JUNE
Penlee’s crew were in the throes of their Sunday morning training session when they received the call for help.
Provident, a 1920s former Brixham trawler with 13 people onboard, had...
Category: Articles
The Fund Raisers
Fair weather or foul During Hoylake lifeboat station's open day last August it was a case of 'What shall we look at first?' And with so much to see and do it must have been a hard choice for many of the 10,000 people who went...
Category: Articles
S.S. Halizones
St. Mary's, Scilly Isles.—19th Octo- ber, 1939. A message was received that a British steamer, s.s. Halizones, had been sunk by enemy action forty miles S.W. of the Bishop Lighthouse, but ten minutes after the life-boat was launched,...
New Life-Boat Transporting Carriage
WORK has been in progress for some years to produce a new carriage for transporting life-boats down to the sea at stations where there is no suitable harbour and no means of launching a life-boat down a slipway. For some time the need has...
Category: Articles
Pottering for Cash
Pottering for cash The Potteries Marathon, the second largest marathon in Great Britain, is attended by entrants from all over the British Isles and abroad. Mr Adrian Lucyk, a regular runner dedicated his run on 1 June 1996 to the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Chemical Tanker E.C.E. (1)
Channel Island collision Alderney's Trent class Roy Barker I and St Peter Port's Severn class Spirit of Guernsey attended in the early hours of 31 January 2006 after chemical tanker fCf collided with the bulk carrier Crot-Rowecki....
Lifeboat Services
West Division Injured swimmer A SOUTH-WESTERLY NEAR GALE force 7 was blowing on the afternoon of Saturday August 2, 1986, when the honorary secretary of Tenby lifeboat station was told by Milford Haven coastguard that a swimmer off Monkstone...
Category: Services