LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Aged Eighty-Four
Mr. Francis Roxburgh, at one time assistant judge in the Lord Mayor's Court, a member of the Paddington branch committee, collecting on life-boat day in Greater London.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE The 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat stationed at Amble in Northumberland launches into the surf on exercise earlier this year. So far in 1986 there have been 750 services by inflatable lifeboats and .*/- lives saved. While... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter
THE total number of launches by life- boats on service in 1960 was 714, the lives of 367 people being saved thereby.
The number of launches was appre- ciably less than in 1959, which had been a truly remarkable year, with a...
Category: Articles
A U.S.A. Liberator Aeroplane
DECEMBER 30TH. - EASTBOURNE, AND HASTINGS, SUSSEX. At about four o’clock in the afternoon the coastguard informed the Eastbourne life-boat station that a U.S.A.
Liberator aeroplane had come down in the sea off Pevensey Bay....
A U.S.A. Liberator Aeroplane (1)
DECEMBER 30TH. - EASTBOURNE, AND HASTINGS, SUSSEX. At about four o’clock in the afternoon the coastguard informed the Eastbourne life-boat station that a U.S.A.
Liberator aeroplane had come down in the sea off Pevensey Bay....
Appledore
The naming and blessing of Manchester and District No 32, the new Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat to be stationed at Appledore. The ceremony took place on Friday February 7, 1986, in Manchester and the photograph shows (I) Mr Tom Booth... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Plymouth Boat Show
PLYMOUTH 1-10 QUEEN ATTERY The 1 st April, 1988, sees the opening of the most exciting Marine Event to be held in Plymouth since the Spanish Armada approached the shores of England.
The Plymouth Boat Show, a ten day Marine...
Category: Advertisement
Peter Varkevisser
ABERSOCH.—Signals ot distress were seen in the vicinity of St. Tudwall's Sound and rockets were fired from St.
Tudwall's Lighthouse on the morning of the 13th January. The Life-boatOldham was launched at 6...
The Right Hon. The Lord Winster, P.C., K.C.M.G.
THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD WINSTER, P.C., K.C.M.G., died on the 8th June, 1961, at the age of 76. He joined the Committee of Management of the Insti- tution in 1932, and was elected a Vice- President in 1955.
He was at one...
Category: Obituaries
Lifeboat Services from Page 189
the west, the sea was slight and visibility was excellent but the tide, which had been flooding for 3'/2 hours, was still rising.
The water had already risen above the girls' chests and was lapping around their...
Category: Services