LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
37' 6" Rather Class Lifeboat a Development of the 37' Oakley Redesigned So That Self-Righting Potential Is Derived Entirely from Hull Form Volume of Superstructure Is Sub
37' 6" Rather class lifeboat, a development of the 37' Oakley redesigned so that self-righting potential is derived entirely from hull form. Volume of superstructure is substantially increased to give buoyancy necessary to right... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
S.S. Halizones
OCT. 19TH. - ST. MARY’S, SCILLY ISLES. 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, news came that...
An Aeroplane (78)
AUGUST 11TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. The R.A.F.
reported a Blenheim aircraft down in the sea three miles off the coast between Yarmouth and Lowestoft, but the life-boats found...
Gretafield
FEBRUARY 4TH. - WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 1.20 A.M. a message was received at Whitehills from the coastguard at Banff that flares had been reported about ten miles N.E....
Foam, of Wisbech
On the 23rd July, the yacht Foam, of Wisbeach, was observed in a very dangerous position, with the sea breaking over her, off this place. It was blowing a strong gale from the N.E. at I the time. The Licensed Victuallers life-boat was...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Thomas Dent of Newbiggin, who first joined the Newbiggin crew in 1932. He was bowman from 1938 to 1944, second coxswain from 1944 to 1947 and was appointed coxswain in July 1947. Since he became a...
Category: Articles
A Rowing Boat (1)
Margate, Kent.—25th July, 1939.
A small rowing boat was drifting out with a boy in it, but before the lifeboat arrived it was found by a motor boat. The boy was exhausted and, after he had been given water and chocolate...
Obituary
Commander Alphonsus J. O'B. Twohig, K.M., M. Inst. T., A.R.I.N.A. died on 3ist July, 1967, at the age of 73. From February, 1951, to February, 1961, Commander Twohig was honourary treasurer of the Dublin branch of the R.N.L.I. He was...
Category: Obituaries
After Each of His Shows at the Playhouse Theatre Bournemouth Last Summer Max Bygraves Went Into the Foyer to Autograph His Lp Record Albums All Profits Were Di
After each of his shows at the Playhouse Theatre, Bournemouth, last summer. Max Bygraves went into the foyer to autograph his LP record albums. All profits were divided between four charities and Mr Bygraves presented the first cheques, for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (59)
JULY 1ST. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the Buckie life-boat reached the position to find that an R.A.F. rescue launch had picked up the body of...