LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Boat
Open boat swamped TYNE COASTGUARD reported to the honorary secretary of Sunderland lifeboat station at 1659 on Saturday September 10, 1983, that a small boat was in difficulties a quarter of a mile inside the south pier. It was a squally...
A Rowing Boat
MEN AND CHILDREN ON THE ROCKS Port Erin, Isle of Man.—At 10.35 on the night of the 29th of August, 1947, it was reported that a rowing boat, which had left at 6.30 with two men and two children on board, had not returned, and later a message...
A Speed Boat (1)
Plymouth, Devon - At 2.40 p.m. on 7th June, 1967, two people from a speedboat were reported in the water about half a mile off Rame Head. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse proceeded at 2.45 in a moderate west north westerly breeze...
A Power Boat
Donaghadee, Co. Down - At 11.16 p.m. on 27th July, 1967, a report was received that shouts had been heard from Perch rock. The life-boat Sir Samuel Kelly supped her moorings at 11.25 in a light north westerly breeze and a slightsea. The tide...
A Boat (1)
Skegness, Lincolnshire - At 1.18 p.m. on ist January, 1967, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary that a small boat appeared to be in distress and that coastguards were going to Vicar's Point to investigate. The...
Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part I: Preparations
PART I: PREPARATIONS CONSTRUCTION HAS BEGUN of tWO prototypes of the RNLI's new 47ft fast slipway lifeboat. The boats are to be built by Fairey Marine at Cowes, Isle of Wight, but the start of building only comes as the culmination of...
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Highland Chief, of London & Tavestock, of Plymouth
Also, on the 12th February, the life-boat and steamer were again off in reply to sig- nals of distress from ships in the neighbour- hood of the Goodwin Sands. The wind had shifted from a southerly to a north-westerly direction, and in a few...
Spitfire
Plymouth, Devon.—At 1 A.M. on the 4th August it was reported that a motor boat, the Spitfire, with seven people on board, had put out during the previous afternoon and had not been heard of since. There was a dense fog, which made an...
H.M. Trawler Caulonia
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT HASTINGS MARCH 31ST. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX, AND DUNGENESS, KENT.
At 2.15 in the morning a message came from Dover asking the lifeboat to launch to the help of a vessel 3,000 yards to the south of...
Fairey Marine Group
FAIREY MARINE GROUP You should never need a lifeboat in your Fairey fast patrol boat, commercial vessel, high speed motor yacht or luxury off-shore power cruiser because they are designed and built to the highest standards of seaworthiness....
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