LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Long Distance Services
Stromness, Orkneys; Wick, Caithness-shire.
ON the night of June 13th the Motor | Life-boat at Stromness was called out to the help of a large steamer, the Hastings County, of Bergen, on her way from Hamburg to...
Category: Services
Try, I'll Try and Baden Powell
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk.—At 8.16 on the morning of 12th of June, 1955, the Gorleston coastguard rang up the Great Yar- mouth and Gorleston life-boat station to say that a shrimp boat had broken down off the harbour...
Passing the Baton On: George Davidson
Passing the baton on: George Davidson, DSM BEM (I) has recently retired after almost 34 years service as coxswain and coxswain/ mechanic of Kirkcudbright lifeboat. With him and his wife Ola are Joseph Sassoon (r), who has taken over as... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Addition to the Life-Boat Services In May 1949
To the list of launches of life-boats in May, in which no ships in distress were found, or the life-boat was not needed, should be added Portrush, Co. Antrim, on the 25th of that month. Rewards of £7 10s. were made to the...
Category: Services
An Anson Aeroplane (1)
JULY 17TH. - RHYL, FLINTSHIRE, AND LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At eight o’clock in the evening the Rhyl life-boat station was told that an Anson aeroplane had come down in the sea seven miles to the north-west, and that Botha aeroplanes and...
Gardelwen
Disabled A FISHING VESSEL, Gardelwen, suffering engine and steering failure was reported to the honorary secretary of Barmouth lifeboat station at 0330 on Sunday October 31, 1982. She was 17'/2 miles bearing 265°M from Barmouth and...
Ceremonies
Relief - D class Pride ofNuneaton and Bedworth The Borough ofNuneaton and Bedworth is over 90 miles from the sea, but the May or, Councillor Bob Copland, decided to make the funding of two D class lifeboats the aim of his Civic Appeal. Aided...
Category: Inaugurations
An Aeroplane (183)
DECEMBER 7TH. - APPLEDORE, DEVON. An aeroplane was reported to have crashed into the sea, but the life-boat was recalled by the naval authorities. - Rewards, £15 12s..
The Tamar Hits the Water During Her Slipway Trials at Tenby's New Boathouse Slipway.
The Tamar hits the water during her slipway trials at Tenby's new boathouse and slipway. The old slipway and boathouse can be seen in the background Photo: Nigel Millard. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Once Had 11 Stations
Mr. A. G. Owen, of Rhosneigr, in contributing a note about the establishment one hundred years ago of a life-boat station at that small fishing village, said: 'The days of the life-boats being dotted all round the island have now passed....
Category: Articles