LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Halloween
New Quay, Cardiganshire.—At 4.35 in the afternoon, on the llth of August, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that a motor and sailing boat was burning flares two miles east-north-east of New Quay. Fifteen minutes later the life-boat St....
International Life-Boat Conference
THE eighth International Life-boat Conference took place in Bremen from the 23rd to the 25th of June, 1959. The hosts were the German life-boat society, Deutsche Gesellschaft zur Rettung Schiffbriichiger.
Delegates from...
Category: Meetings
Noordpool
Five saved in 12-hour service to sinking trawler Number's Arun class Kenneth Thelwall was away from her station for 12 hours in winds up to Force 10 when a Belgian trawler started taking water to the NNE of the station on 12 November...
Arienoldus G.
Torbay, Devon.—Early on the morning of the 10th of March, 1956, five •members of the crew of the motor vessel Arienoldus G., of Rotterdam, which was anchored one mile south- east of Teignmouth bar, put off in a small boat to land the mate...
Past and Present
100 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, February 1889 issue SOUTH NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK LIFE-BOAT MEN The Life-boat crews of this district, extending from Palling to Southwold, both inclusive, are formed on a ! different system from any...
Category: Articles
An Eerie Sensation With Canvas Screens Over All Her Wheelhouse Windows the Princess Hoyal
An eerie sensation. With canvas screens over all her wheelhouse windows The Princess Hoyal makes her way out to sea from Poole Harbour for blind pilotage exercises. Every aid to navigation is brought into use in the drill.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Calendar and Christmas Card
The Calendar.
THE Institution is again issuing a life- boat calendar and a Christmas card.
The calendar will have on it a reproduction in colours of a picture by the late Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I., of the...
Category: Advertisement
David Jolly (Tiller Master)
THE ORIGINAL TILLER MASTER AUTOMATIC STEERING on a COMPASS COURSE For craft up to 50ft. over 100lbs.
thrust. Self-contained unit with simple 2-hole installation. Quickly disengaged, i amp. average...
Category: Advertisement
Feature: Come Together
On the morning of Thursday 20 May a coach set off early from RNLI HQ in Poole, full of excited and ever-so-slightly nervous RNLI staff. They were destined for the Barbican Hall in London and a day of rare celebration. They were to Literally...
Category: Articles
Nine Years After
THE coxswain at Eastbourne has received a picture postcard from Sweden: " Many hearty greetings to you and warm thanks for wonderful rescue of 1930 to all from B. Lindfors." The postcard had a picture of Trafalgar...
Category: Articles