LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The 24ft Cabin Cruiser Tomey Too
Overdue HAYLING ISLAND POLICE received a telephone call from a lady in Berkshire at 0330 on Tuesday January 3 to say that her husband and son had not returned from a fishing trip. They had set out from Northney Marina at 1030 and had been...
Naming Ceremony at Sunderland
THE naming ceremony of the new motor life-boat at Sunderland took place on 13th June. The boat is of the 46 feet Watson cabin type, described on page 192. She has cost £8,000 and has been built out of a legacy from the late Mrs. I....
Category: Inaugurations
lolanda
APRIL 23RD. - TORBAY, DEVON. A motor fishing host, returning to Brixham in the morning, reported that the engine of the fishing boat lolanda had broken down in St. Mary’s Bay. A freshening south-east wind was blowing, and there was a rough...
The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra-buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
French Trawler Keriolet Towed Back In Llfracombe In Storm Force Winds By Charles H Barrett (Civil Service No 35) Clovelly's 70' Clyde Class Lifeboat Photograph By Co
French trawler Kcriolct, towed back In llfracombe in storm force winds by Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35), Clovelly's 70' Clyde class lifeboat. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of D. S. Evans. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sophia and Bonny Loch Ryan
GIRVAN.— On the 1st February a very heavy sea was running outside the bar, and as the gale was freshening, the crew of the Life-boat were summoned, two of the fishing-boats, the Sophia and the Bonny Loch Ryan, not having returned from the...
Below: 8 May 2007. The Antony Gormley Sculpture On Waterloo Bridge Lends A Helping Hand With Collections
below: 8 May 2007. - View image in PDF
the Antony Gormley sculpture on waterloo bridge lends a helping hand with collections. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Orchis
30th November.
The s.s. Orchis, carrying a crew of nine, put out from Par with a cargo of china clay for Dundee and Aberdeen. She sprang a leak and began to founder, and her crew took to the ship's...
Margate Motor Life-Boat on Service
Rescuing the Captain and Mate of the S.S. " Treport," of London, which struck submerged wreckage at the mouth of the Thames on 19th September, and sank after being beached on the Girdler Sands. The crew had been taken off earlier... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Seafire Aircraft (1)
Clogher Head, Co. Louth; and Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 3.40 on the afternoon of the 22nd of May, 1953, the Air Control Officer, Irish Air Corps, at Baldonnell rang up the Clogher Head life-boat station to say that a Seafire aircraft of the Irish...