LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Back to the drawing board
Last Autumn’s issue of the Lifeboat introduced the RNLI’s experimental lifeboat FCB2. It is hoped this will evolve into the next generation of carriage-launched all-weather lifeboat, replacing the Mersey class. Unfortunately, the hull shape...
Category: Articles
The Right Hon. The Lord Winster, P.C., K.C.M.G.
THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD WINSTER, P.C., K.C.M.G., died on the 8th June, 1961, at the age of 76. He joined the Committee of Management of the Insti- tution in 1932, and was elected a Vice- President in 1955.
He was at one...
Category: Obituaries
The Crew of Torbay's Arun Edward Bridges (Civil Service No 37)
The crew of Torbay's Arun Edward Bridges (Civil Service No. 37) can only watch as the trawler Tennetje sinks off Start Point, Devon on 17 July 1988.
The lifeboat had been called at 0605 after part of Tennetje's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bookshelf
The Story of the Barmouth Lifeboats by Jeff Morris A recent addition to the series of comprehensive booklets from the prolific Honorary Archivist of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts Society, this time chronicling the history of Barmouth's...
Category: Articles
Greenhaven
Arranmore, Co. Donegal.—About three o'clock on the afternoon of the 29th of February, 1956, the Malin Head radio station reported that the motor vessel Greenhaven, of Newcastle, had wire- lessed that her engine had broken down five and a...
Lindy Lou
On the evening of the 26th of July, 1954, the Aberystwyth, Cardigan- shire, life-boat Aguila Wren, after standing by for an hour in rough seas with a gale blowing from the south- west, rescued three people from the motor fishing vessel Lindy...
Volant, of Kirkwall
JUNE 18TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
At nine in the evening the coastguard reported a schooner flying the N.C. distress signal one and a half miles west-south-west of South Stack. The sea was smooth, with a light variable wind...
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Torbay, Devon - At 10.51 p.m. on ist August, 1966, a boy was reported to have fallen over the cliff at Sharkham point.
At 11.15 tne life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent left her moorings with a boarding boat in tow. There...
Captured In Oils:
Captured in oils: the most recent of the celebrated marine artist, David Cobb's lifeboat paintings is this impression of a rescue carried out by Troon lifeboat on September 12, 1980. Her coxswain, Ian Johnson, was awarded the silver...
Category: Drawings
Kenilworth Castle
Appledore, Devon.—During the evening of the 16th March Croyde coastguard reported that a vessel between Morte Point and Lundy Island was burning flares. A moderate and increasing south breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The vessel was...