LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Humber Lifeboat Crew In 1956 When the Late Captain William S Anderson (Fourth from Right) Was the Superintendent Coxswain Standing Directly By the Bow Is Mr Robert
Humber lifeboat crew in 1956 when the late Captain William S. Anderson (fourth from rig/it) was the superintendent coxswain.
Standing directly by the bow is Mr Robertson Buchan, his son-in-law, who recently retired as... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
At the Earls Court European Offshore Petroleum Exhibition Last October Hrh the Duke of Kent President of the Rnli Discusses With Leverton Engine Divisional Ma
At the Earls Court, European Offshore Petroleum Exhibition last October, HRH The Duke of Kent, president of the RNLI, discusses with Leverton Engine Divisional Manager Ron Jones the lifeboat photographed, Aberdeen's 54ft Arun B P Forties... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Important National Question
WE have frequently had occasion to allude to the feet—to the astounding fact—that an annual average of more than 700 human beings suffer death by drowning, from shipwreck or collision, on the shores and in the waters of the United Kingdom...
Category: Articles
Formby Lifeboat Station 1776-1919 By Barbara and Reginald Yorke
UNTIL RECENT TIMES the approaches to the Port of Liverpool were quite hazardous. The difficulties stemmed from the fact that seaward of the northern extremity of the Wirral peninsula the estuary suddenly opens out to become very shallow for...
Category: Articles
Features
spIRIt Storyteller, boatman and hero Anglesey has seen more than its fair share of difficult rescues. Carol Waterkeyn hears how Margaret O’Leary’s grandfather played a pivotal role This year marks the 80th anniversary of an outstanding...
Category: Articles
Another Bronze Medal Service By Padstow. Awards to the Master and Crew of the Tug "Helen Peele."
PADSTOW has the distinction of having carried out two services last year in which such skill and gallantry were shown in circumstances of great danger that the Institution has awarded its Bronze Medal in each case.
The...
Category: Medals
Sjofna, of Oslo
NOVEMBER 23RD. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL, AND CLOVELLY, DEVON.
At 2.30 in the morning the Padstow coastguard telephoned that news had been received from the naval authorities at Falmouth that a ship was ashore at Knap Head, near...
The Motor Fishing Vessels Stingray and Welsh Lady III
At 2.58 p.m. on 23rd June, 1965, the honorary secretary in consultation with the coxswain decided that the life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall, should be launched to escort two local motor fishing vessels to harbour in view of the bad weather...
Acker Bilk and His Jazzmen Were the Big Attraction at the Grand Ball Organised By the Recently Re-Formed Brightlingsea and District Branch Held In the Spring at a Holid
Acker Bilk and his Jazzmen were the big attraction at the grand ball organised by the recently re-formed Brightlingsea and District branch. Held in the spring at a holiday camp owned by the branch chairman, D. L. Hammerton, the ball raised... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Penthesilea
BRAUNTON AND APPLEDORE, DEVON.— On the llth of January, the ship Penthesilea, of Liverpool, manned by a crew of 30 hands all told, left Newport, Monmouthshire, laden with coal, for the Mauritius. She was towed down the Bristol Channel and...