LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ling and Cabin Cruiser Dorella
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 6.10 on the evening of the 21st of October, 1949, news was received from Bor- deaux, three miles north of St. Peter Port, that a yacht, with a cabin cruiser in tow, was in difficulties, being carried astern by...
Improved Liquid Boat Compass and Binnacle of the National Life-Boat Institution
IN a former Number of this Journal we published a description, with illustrations, of this valuable little instrument. Subsequently, in 1867, the Committee of the Institution presented to J. MACGREGOR, Esq., the founder of the " Canoe...
Category: Articles
Salome
Dungeness, Kent. At 12.25 early on the morning of the 16th of July, 1958, the Lade coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yacht Salome of Colchester, which was in tow of the pilot cutter Pelorus, was half full of water and her...
A New Zealand Lease of Life
Brictlington coxswain Fred Waikington follows in the wake of some former RNLI lifeboats that have travelled some 12,000 miles to a new home in the land of kiwis, sheet), volcanoes... and almost 10,000 miles of coastline.red and Carol...
Category: Articles
Resolutions Passed at the Annual General Meeting for 1909
THE RIGHT HON. LORD GEORGE F. HAMILTON, G.C.S.I., is THE CHAIR.
Moved by The Chairman.
Seconded by SIR JOHN CAMERON LAMB, C.B., C.M.G.
1. That the Annual Report be adopted, printed and...
Category: Meetings
Obituaries
It is with deep regret that we announce the following deaths.
May 1979 Robert Johnson, motor mechanic of Longhope lifeboat from 1929 to 1965.
Bob Johnson first went out in the lifeboat in 1916 and served...
Category: Obituaries
Saturday night, Sunday morning
An unconventional launch followed by 8 hours at sea in near gale force conditions – ‘business as usual,’ say the crew of The Lizard lifeboat, Cornwall.
At midnight on Saturday 11 September the crew assembled on the village...
Category: Articles
Feature: Come See the Show
By the time this issue of the Lifeboat reaches you, the Schroders London International Boat Show 2004 will already be in full swing. This year's event, which runs from 8-18 January, is special for several reasons.
Not...
Category: Articles
The Western Lightship
JANUARY 7TH. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
At 9.30 in the evening of the 6th of January the honorary secretary of the life-boat station was asked by the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board for the services of the life-boat to...
The Presenters of BBC TV's Coast
The Presenters Of Bbc Tv's Coast. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs