LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coxswain John Collins of Baltimore In the Republic of Ireland
Coxswain John Collins of Baltimore in the Republic of Ireland first joined the lifeboat crew in 1955. He became second coxswain in 1965 and was appointed coxswain in 1972, being awarded a long service badge in 1982. John is a boat builder by... - View image in PDF
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Lifeboat Services
Eastern Division Explosion at sea AN EXPLOSION, on the night of November 15, 1973, aboard the 300-ton deep-sea trawler Boston Jaguar, 37 miles 020° (T) from Cromer, Norfolk, left the ship without steering gear, with her mate killed and...
Category: Services
Book Reviews
0 It must be almost impossible to write an uninteresting book about the lifeboat service but equally difficult to do full justice to the subject. A. D.
Farr has achieved the difficult task of writing a splendidly...
Category: Articles
Timothy Appleyard (12), Son of the Rev. E. Appleyard, Vicar of Flamborough, Is Chairman of the Flamborough Branch, With a Model of the Flamborough Life-Boat Friendly Forester
Timothy Appleyard (12), son of the Rev. E. Appleyard, vicar of Flamborough, who is chairman of the Flamborough branch, with a model of the Flamborough lifeboat Friendly Forester. It was built for Timothy by Mr. F. Mainprize, a local... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Launch of an Oil Rig, Sovereign Explorer
Severely injured NEW BRIGHTON'S Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat, Blenwatch, manned by Helmsman Clifford Downing and Crew Members Francis Brereton and F.
Jones, had launched at 1100 on Tuesday December 6, 1983, and...
On Board the Broughty Ferry Motor Life-Boat
(Coxswain James Coull and Lieut.-Commander T. G. Michelmore, R.D., R.N.R., Northern District Inspector.) The two boats travelled together from Cowes to Dundee in May, a distance of 503 miles, and the Aith life-boat then had 295 miles more to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Presentation of a Cheque for £94970 Was the Result of a Sponsored Run from Raf Sciimpton In Lincolnshire to Brighton Made By Personnel from the Raf Base
The presentation of a cheque for £949.70 was the result of a sponsored run from RAF Sciimpton in Lincolnshire to Brighton, made by personnel from the RAF Base. The journey, made over two days last June, was run in relays of three.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Arun Development
SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES gathering momentum over the past 30 years have pushed back the horizon of the seafaring man.
High-powered marine diesel engines, allied with modern hull design, have given him speed with reliability...
Category: Articles
Quixotic
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BROUGHTY FERRY DEC. 5TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, AND ARBROATH, ANGUS. - During the evening the Bell Rock Lighthouse, off the coast of Angus, reported by radio telephony that a small steamer had run on to the Bell Rock. At...
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SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BROUGHTY FERRY DEC. 5TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, AND ARBROATH, ANGUS. - During the evening the Bell Rock Lighthouse, off the coast of Angus, reported by radio telephony that a small steamer had run on to the Bell Rock. At...