LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Boydell's Patent Self-Laying Endless Railway
IN an article in this Number of our Journal, on Life-boat Carriages, we have explained the importance of providing as far as possible for the speedy transport of a life-boat along the shore; so that she might, on the occur- rence of a wreck,...
Category: Articles
Two Tractor Launches: Donna Nook and Bridlington
At 7.45 on the morning of 11th February, with a strong wind and a very heavy sea, the Donna Nook Life-boat was, called out to the help of the steam ' trawler Dinorah, which was in distress off Haile Flat. The Boat was success- fully...
Category: Services
B. S. Colling
At 2.15 P.M. on the 1st April the local motor fishing coble B. S. Colling put out to haul her pots, which were about eight miles to the north. The sea and weather were bad and gradually got worse. The life-boat coxswain was on watch, and at...
Special Trust Funds Income Account, 1903
SPECIAL TRUST FUNDS To TRANSFERS TO INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT (see p. 35) £. s. d. £. i. d.
Blake Life-boat Maintenance Fund 38 13 2 Dunnett Widows and Orphans Fund 128 11 11 Reardon Samaritan Fund...
Category: Accounts
Rover, of Annan
On the 10th October, the Angela and Hannah life-boat went out, during a fresh breeze from the S.W., and saved a man, who was found on a raft, formed of two ballast boards and a gaff. He had belonged to the smack Rover,' of Annan, which...
Hope, of Portsmouth
The brig Hope, of Portsmouth, while at anchor about two miles from the mouth of this harbour, in a dismantled state, was observed to hoist signals of dis- tress, during a very high wind from the S.W., and in a heavy sea. The Life-boat...
A Vampire Jet Aircraft (1)
Dungeness, and Dover, Kent; and Hastings, Sussex.—About 9.25 on the night of the 18th of December, 1952, the Dungeness life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson had just returned from a service launch to a steamer aground a mile east of the...
(Left) D Class Inflatable:
(left) D class inflatable: length overall 15ft 6in; beam 6ft 4in; draught 17in; displacement 0.25 tons; maximum speed, 20 knots; range at full speed, 60 nautical miles. The D class inflatable, introduced in 1963, has a crew of two; she... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Robin Weedon
Robin Weedon (wearing cap) bicycled an exhausting 200 miles from his home in Enfield to Hayling Island and back to raise £400 in sponsorship for Hayling branch. He is pictured here at Hayling with Shore Helper Bill Longford, Freddy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lerwick January 4 1988:
LERWICK, January 4, 1988: when the Danish fishing vessel Setubal fouled her propeller on her own nets 65 miles east of Lerwick, no other vessel in the vicinity was available to take her in tow. Lerwick lifeboat launched at 1602, made the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs