LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Right) the Ceremony Over Sir Alec Goes Aboard for a Tour of the Harbour
(Right) The ceremony over, Sir Alec goes aboard for a tour of the harbour.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Maureen
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY TILL FISHING VESSEL REFLOATS Stronsay, Orkneys. At 5.20 on the afternoon of the 17th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat was ashore at Torness Point. At 5.46 the life-boat J.J.K.S...
Bellona, of Red Bay
On the 17th January, the schooner Bellona, of Eed Bay, was driven ashore in a heavy gale off the bar of Dtmdrum, and almost immediately be- came a total wreck. Owing to the thickness of the weather and darkness of the morning, she was not...
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West Mersea, Essex. At about 4.30 p.m. on 2oth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three people were stranded on a sandbank at Point Gear on the River (Seine. At 4.30 the IRB launched in a ftesh north-westerly...
Derek Lionel Scott
Derek Lionel Scott Former Mumbles coxswain (see right) Derek Scott BEM Derek joined The Mumbles lifeboat crew in 1947 following a disaster when the lifeboat overturned with the loss of all her crew. In 1950 he was made bowman, in 1952 second...
Category: Obituaries
The Baby of the Fleet 25 Years on By Heather Deane Deputy Public Relations Officer
TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND LAUNCHES—an average of 1,000 a year and the lives of nearly 11,000 men, women and children saved. This is the proud record of the 16ft (4.88m) D class inflatable lifeboat, preparing to celebrate her silver jubilee in...
Category: Articles
Racing Dinghies
Racing dinghies ON AN OVERCAST Sunday morning, May 3, dinghies from several sailing clubs on the River Blackwater had started racing when they were overtaken by deteriorating weather; soon after 1100 the strong westerly breeze was already...
A Boat, a Pilot Cutter and Magnet
LIFE-BOAT ESCORT Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 12.2 p.m. on 27th December, 1964, a number of the life-boat crew and helpers at the watch-house saw a red flare being fired by a small boat fishing at the harbour mouth. The life-boat Tynesider...
Northerly Storm - Spring Tides (From Page 121)
abbreviated log preceded a day of inspection and damage assessment for all coastal staff in the area. The divisional inspector of lifeboats for the South East, Lieut-Commander Michael Woodroffe, was diverted to carry out a survey of Margate...
Category: Articles
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Galway Bay. At i p.m. on 24th October, 1965, the local doctor asked for the use of the life-boat to take a boy with a broken arm to the mainland for hospital treatment. No other suitable boat was available. The life-boat Mary Stanford, on...