LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Liner Calypso (2)
Cruise liner in crisis Six lifeboats launched on 6 May 2006 to the help of The Calypso (pictured). The 135m liner and 708 passengers were 15 miles south of Beachy Head, East Sussex, when fire broke out. Tyne classes MaxAitken III from...
Prototypes of a New Fast Slipway Lifeboat
WITH THE TIME APPROACHING when the RNLI's 46ft 9in and 47ft Watson class housed lifeboats will reach the end of their station lives, preparations have been going ahead over the past few years for their replacement by a new fast slipway...
Category: Articles
Day Star (1)
SOUTHWOLD AND DUNWICH, Onthemorningofthe27thDecember,1886, the schooner Day Star, of and for Ipswich, from Seaham, with coal, was driven on the shoal at Thorpeness, with both anchors down, and became a total wreck during a heavy gale of wind...
Dave Lee Travis
Dave Lee Travis draws the winning ticket of the Renault 5 car competition from a drum in a car boot on Renault's stand at the Earl's Court Motor Show. With him are (I) Peter Holness, membership secretary, and (r) Cdr Ted Pritchard... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Raymond Taylor Mbe,
Raymond Taylor MBE, Cullercoats branch president, Raymond first served the Cullercoats crew when he was just 14 and later went on to become second coxswain and senior helmsman of the lifeboat.
Following his retirement at 50...
Category: Obituaries
Sybilla, of Castlebay
AUGUST 2ND. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. About five in the evening information was received from the coastguard that a motor boat appeared to be in difficulties off Greanhead. A south-east wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor...
The S.S. James McGee
JUNE 21ST. - MINEHEAD, SOMERSET.
At 8.26 A.M. the coastguard reported that a ship’s boat was drifting down channel six miles north of Hurlstone Point. A fresh easterly breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life...
Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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Category: Donations
Ladies of Reigate and Redhill Guild
Sherry and mince pies are a recipe for success, as the ladies of Reigate and Redhill guild proved when they made them the object of a partv held in Reigate Town Hall last November. It look no more than two hours to raise £825 from the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Admiralty Survey Vessel Medusa
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 5.47 p.m. on 13th September, 1965, the coastguard reported that a skin diver was missing from the fishing boat Bonnie Lass, of St.
Ives. At 6.10 the life-boat Edgar, George, Orlando and Eva Child was...