LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Below) Lifeboats Are Built In Commercial Boatyards Tinder the Supervision of Rnli Technical Officers
(Below) Lifeboats are built in commercial boatyards tinder the supervision of RNLI technical officers.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
George and Mary, and Udea
FISHGUARD, SOUTH WALKS.—A small screw steamer and a schooner had been at anchor in Fishguard roadstead for some days, being unable to go round St. David's Head, owing to the strong westerly winds.
On the night of the...
An Aeroplane
3rd December. An aeroplane came down near the shore, but her crew got to safety unaided—Rewards, £11 5s..
The Lifeboat Was Made By Mrs Jean Peel
Over J,000 hand-made paper flowers were needed to transform a rowing boat into a 47ft Watson class lifeboat. The old Coniston custom of dressing rowing boats has been revived as part of Coniston water festival. The lifeboat was made by Mrs... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Royal Air Force Flying Boat
Angle, Pembrokeshire.—On the afternoon of the 6th September the coast watcher at St. Ann's Head telephoned that a Royal Air Force flying-boat was making SOS signals. A moderate S.E. gale was blowing, and the weather was thick. The sea...
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
AT the annual meeting of the Committee of this Fund on the 18th January, pre- sided over by Mr. CHARLES G. TURNER, Controller-General of Inland Revenue, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, hon. secretary, re- ported that during the. year the Fund, which...
Category: Meetings
The Sailing Boat Sweetie Pie
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 2.36 on the afternoon of the 20th of June, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing boat had had her mast carried away one mile east of the look-out. At three o'clock there...
Lena B
Propeller fouled LENA B, a 32ft beam trawler, 2'/2 miles south east of Hastings with her propeller fouled by a fishing net, was reported to the honorary secretary of Hastings lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 0700 on Sunday October 12...
Ethel Edith
On the morning of the 2nd May a pilot reported to the coxswain that a vessel in the Gore Channel was flying a signal flag, and a life-boatman went to Westgate to find out the nature of the signal. He telephoned that it was a distress signal,...
St.Ives Lifeboat the 37Ft Oakley Frank Penfold Marshall
St Ives lifeboat, the 37ft Oakley Frank Penfold Marshall, returning at 0700 on October 17, 1980 from escorting the French trawler Floralie in gale force winds. A big breaking wave can just be seen coming up astern. photograph by courtesy of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs