LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Three Knot Marvel
The launching ceremony and trial run of a four-foot scale model of the Howth life-boat took place recently at Baldoyle. The builder, twenty years old Derick Riley of "Alverno", Strand Road, Baldoyle, Dublin, is a science student at...
Category: Articles
Edina, of Leith
FEBRUARY 1ST. - LERWICK, SHETLANDS.
At 3.7 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel ashore on Holm of Cruester, Lerwick Harbour, and signalling by siren. She was asking for a pilot and the lifeboat.
Atlantic Storms
" So long as men shall continue to navigate the ocean, and the tempests shall hold their course over its surface, disasters by sea, shipwreck and peril to human life must inevitably take place." —SIR WILLIAM HILLARY,...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Stands By During Helicopter Rescue of Man Injured By Falling Over Cliff While Trying to Save a Boy
Life-Boat Stands By During Helicopter Rescue of Man Injured By Falling Over Cliff While Trying To Save A Boy. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The French Ketch St. Michael
Exmouth, Devonshire.—On the morning of the 21st January the coastguard telephoned that the Lyme Regis harbour- master had reported a vessel apparently adrift from her moorings.
He later reported that she had anchored off...
German Presentation to Margate
THE President of the German Republic has awarded to the Coxswain and Crew of the Margate Motor Life-boat certifi- cates in recognition of their services to the German motor-ship Hermine, of Wilhelmshaven, in the early morning of 29th...
Category: Awards
Appledore
The naming and blessing of Manchester and District No 32, the new Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat to be stationed at Appledore. The ceremony took place on Friday February 7, 1986, in Manchester and the photograph shows (I) Mr Tom Booth... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Captain Howard F. J. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N.
Retirement from the Post of Chief Inspector.
ON 14th August Captain Howard F. J.
Rowley, C.B.E., E.N., to the great regret of the Committee of Manage- ment and the officers and staff of the Institution,...
Category: Articles
The Spanish Trawlers Monte Izankun and Costa da Isolda
Trawlers aided TWO SPANISH trawlers in difficulties two miles north of Skelligs rocks—one had a rope fouling her propeller and the other had engine trouble—on November 9, 1972, led to the Valentia, Co. Kerry, lifeboat being...
St. Minver
Padstow, Cornwall. At 6.46 on the evening of the 29th of August, 1958, a message was received by the honorary secretary that calls for help had been heard coming from a boat off Pentine Head. At 7.5 the no. 1 life-boat Joseph Hiram Chadwick...