LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Functional Clothing
"Airflow" JACKET & CONTOUR HOOD SEAGOING OVERTROUSERS Functional protection with the best weather clothing in the world ideal for work or leisure 'Airflow' coat and jackets are wind and water proof outer clothing and...
Category: Advertisement
Sir John Snell and Lizbeth M
Margate, Kent.—At 7.3 on the morn- ing of the 4th of April, 1957, the coast- guard telephoned that two vessels had been in collision one mile north-east of Spit buoy. The life-boat St. Mary's, on temporary duty at the station, was...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To H. W. JEFFERSON, Mechanic of the Hartlepool Motor Life-boat, in recognition of his intrepid conduct when the Life-boat caught fire, the Thanks of the Institution inscribed on Vellum and a monetary grant.
To REGINALD...
Category: Awards
Bridlington Memorial Service
IN the last issue of The Lifeboat an account was published of the Memorial Service at Bridlington for the men who lost their lives on 10th February, 1871, when an unusually severe gale burst on the north-east coast of England, and at...
Category: Articles
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures In 1987 the RNLI's lifeboats have so far launched 1,572 times, saving 638 lives.
In 1986 lifeboats launched 3,712 times (an average of over 10 times each day) and saved 1,424 lives (an average of over...
Category: Articles
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures In 1985 the RNLI's lifeboats launched 3,864 times (an average of ten times each day) and saved 1,742 lives (an average of over 4 people rescued each day). Note to those entering Shoreline competition: the 1985 lives...
Category: Articles
Anniversary of Grace Darling's Rescue
The 1th September, 1963, was the 25th anniversary of the famous rescue by Grace Darling and her father of survivors from the Forfarshire. The following article, which has been specially written for the Life-boat by Commander W....
Category: Articles
Offshore Lifeboat Services December 1977 January and February 1978
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire December 11.
Aith, Shetland December 9.
Aldeburgh, Suffolk January 1.
Amble, Northumberland December 12.
Appledore, North Devon December 11 and...
Category: Services
The French Life-Boat Society. Boat-House With Movable Platform at La Joliette, Marseilles
THE Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages has recently found itself obliged to provide a pontoon boat-house for one of its motor boats, owing to the difficulty of obtaining a satisfactory site for a boat-house and slipway in the...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy, Corsair, a Rowing Boat and the Folk Boat Alba
No. 3 Life-boat Area (North East England) BRIDLINGTON'S BUSY DAY ON 12th July the Bridlington, Yorkshire, life-boat William Henry and Mary King—she is a 37-foot Oakley—and the local inshore rescue boat had a busy...