LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Alan Clarke
Alan Clarke Helmsman of the Hunstanton Atlantic 21 Spirit of America. Awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for taking off an injured man from the MFV Portunus under tow in the Wash in Force 9 winds,short steep seas and total darkness... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Eugenie S. Embiricos
JANUARY 21 ST. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. The life-boat rescued twenty eight people from the Greek steamer Eugenie S. Embiricos on January 22nd and landed sheep and provisions on January 26th. For details, see January 10th, page 12.
Contents
Contents Volume XLIX Number 495 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL Director and Secretary: REAR ADMIRAL W J GRAHAM CB MNI RNLI News.
Lifeboat Services.
Editor: EDWARD WAKE-WALKER Headquarters: Royal National...
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Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts
LAUNCHES AND LIVES SAVED BY LIFE-BOATS AND IRBs 1st June to 31st August: Launches 820, lives saved 387.
JUNE NORTH-WEST DISTRICT Holyhead, Anglesey - At 10.23 p.m.
on 25th June, 1966, a boy was reported to...
Category: Services
Casamance (2)
FEBRUARY 17TH. - HARTLEPOOL, AND SEAHAM, DURHAM, AND REDCAR, AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE. Shortly after midnight a message came to the Hartlepool honorary secretary’s house from the coastguard that the life-boat was wanted. The honorary secretary...
A New Type of Motor Life-Boat
AT the end of last year we began building the first of a new type of Motor Life-boat.
She will be by far the largest and most powerful Motor Life-boat in the Instituincreased tion's Fleet, and will, in fact, be the...
Category: Articles
The S.S. lano
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 12.30 early on the morning of the 4th of November, 1957, the Foreland coast- guard telephoned that a steamer anchored in Sandown Bay appeared to be dragging. The life-boat crew were alerted, and half an hour...
United States Life-Saving Service
IN the report which has been recently issued by the General Superintendent of the Life-saving Service, for the fiscal year ended 30th June 1884, it is stated that there were then 201 Life-Saving Stations under their management, 156 being on...
Category: Articles
Launching and Recovery—Part I: Slipway Stations By Edward Wake- Walker Assistant Public Relations Officer (London)
IN THE ACCOUNT of the service by Padstow lifeboat to the coaster Skopelos Sky which appeared in the summer edition of the journal, there was an unusual addendum. Unlike most reports that begin with words to the effect that 'the lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Sincere (2)
Search for missing vessel locates wreck A total of 21 boats, including the Scarborough, Filey and Whitby lifeboats, took part in the search for the fishing vessel Sincere with two persons on board, when it failed to return to harbour on 28...