LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
None (1)
Mersey in heavy breakers and backwash only yards from stone sea wall Scarborough's Mersey class lifeboat Fanny Victoria Wilkinson and Frank Stubbs was involved in attempts to save a woman who had been swept into the sea at Scarborough on...
Fig 3 (Left):
Fig 3 (left): The first FSB prototype fitted with aluminium alloy decks and wheelhouse. The after cabin superstructure, also aluminium, can be seen waiting in foreground.. - View image in PDF
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Boy David (1)
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire and New Brighton, Cheshire - At 7.44 p.m. on 2nd December, 1968, it was learnt that the shrimp boat Boy David with two men on board was overdue at Southport. After further enquiries had been made the...
A Long Search on the Goodwin Sands
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to June 30th, 1952 77,747 A Long Search on the Goodwin Sands AT 10.53 on the night of the 13th...
Category: Services
A Trawler (1)
Fenit, Co. Kerry.—21st July, 1939.
The life-boat put out at 8.45 P.M. indense fog to the help of a trawler which was reported to have struck Sibyl Head and to be making for Blasket Sound in a sinking condition. Mr. T....
Weston-Super-Mare: the Lifeboat People of Weston-Super-Mare Met at Knightstone
Weston-super-Mare: The lifeboat people of Weston-super-Mare met at Knightstone Causeway on Saturday August 13 for the naming ceremony of the Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat funded by an appeal launched to mark the centenary of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy
Two men on sandbank IT WAS at about 7.45 p.m. on August 4, 1973, that Mr J. R. Stephen, a Trinity House pilot, was informed by Mr Colin Bull that Mr Bull's brother and another man were adrift in a 7' dinghy off the oil jetty of...
A Gallant Search at Dunmore East
AT 11.45 P.M. on the 14th January, 1938, the civic guard at Tramore, Co.
Waterford, reported that lights had been seen at sea, possibly from a ship in distress. The crew of the motor life-boat C. and S. was assembled, but a...
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Contents
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 54 Number 534 Chairman: SIR MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES CBE RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Editorial Assistant: JON JONES Advertisement Manager: JOHN FARNHILL...
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Empire Scout (1)
JANUARY 8TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
At 10.40 in the morning the port war signal station at Teesmouth reported two vessels in distress off the port. The Teesmouth lifeboat crew were assembled and...