LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Mr. R. A. Oakley, M.B.E., M.R.I.N.A., the life-boat designer, who last year retired from full-time service with the Institution, received a letter in November, 1966, from Coxswain W. Sheader, of the Scarborough lifeboat J. G. Graves of...

Stronsay, Orkneys - At 12.55 P-mon 26th October, 1966, a Danish fishing vessel was reported aground on the Broad Shoal, Shapinsay. The life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndman left her moorings at 1.25 in a gale force north easterly wind and a...

Longhope, Orkneys, and Wick, Caithness-shire - At 11.27 a.m. on 26th January, 1967, it was learned that a vessel was transmitting a Mayday call off Pentland Skerries. The Longhope life-boat T.G.B. was launched at 11.45 in a strong east by...

CLARKE CHAPMAN M ARI N E A U X I L I A R I E S FOR LIFE-BOAT STATI O NS This illustrates one of our electrically driven winches as supplied to the Tynemouth Lifeboat Station for hauling up the life-boat.

Many other winches...

Campbeltown, Argyllshire - At 10.26 p.m. on 12th January, 1968, the motor mechanic informed the honorary secretary that he had intercepted a radio message from the motor fishing vessel Golden Oriole reporting that she was in difficulties...

New Quay, Cardiganshire - At 6.10 p.m. on 29th August, 1968, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties three to four miles west of New Quay head. The IRB was launched at 6.25 in a fresh north easterly breeze...

Swanage, Dorset - At 4.50 p.m. on 2nd September, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been fired from a trimaran one and a half miles south of Peveril Point. At 5 o'clock the lifeboat R.L.P. was...

The school choir and other pupils who were following an Expressive and Performing Arts Course at the Duchess's High School in Alnwick performed 'The Legend of Grace Darling' last year in aid of the Grace Darling... - View image in PDF