LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Converted Naval Steam Launch Nasus
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—At 9.55 on the night of the 10th of September, 1952, the life-boat motor mechanic reported that a yacht appeared to have broken down and was drifting to the northward, but the coastguard stated that she was...
The Princess Royal Hrh the Princess Anne
The Princess Roval, HRH the Princess Anne meets pupils from the Clerkenwell Parochial School, dressed in authentic Victorian costume, at the launching of the Grace Darling Appeal, intended to raise enough money for a new lifeboat for North... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sovac Radiant
Dover, Kent.—At 10.10 on the night of the 13th of January, 1952, the Eastern Harbour Arm Signal Station reported that the tanker Sovac Radiant, of Panama, had gone aground in Fan Bay, and at 10.30 the life-boat Southern Africa left her...
Notes and News
1924 will be remembered as one of the wettest years on record. But it was not a year of storms, although it ended with great gales all round the coast.
It was, in fact, a year much calmer than the average. It is such years...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Dolphin
HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.—The Coastguard on duty haying observed a vessel aground on the East Hoyle bank, while a S.W.
gale was blowing with a rough sea on the 29th May, informed the Coxswain of the Life-boat Coard William Sguarey...
Mrs E M Miller-Barstow OBE
Mrs E M Miller-Barstow OBE MA JP DSTJ, President of the Westonsuper- mare station branch from 1980 to 1996..
Category: Obituaries
Lifeboat Services
Scotland North Division Propeller fouled AT 1050 on -Monday June 25, 1984, Pentland Coastguard contacted Wick lifeboat station's deputy launching authority with the news that a salmon coble was in difficulties off Ackergill. At 1100 the...
Category: Services
Working Together from Page 93
Working Together from page 93 You have only got to touch it with a rope, or something like that, and there is no problem.
Kennett: We just give them a flick as soon as they come down. That is good...
Category: Articles
Prince of Wales' Day In London. The Prince Arriving at Lambeth Town Hall
The Prince Arriving at Lambeth Town Hall. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Six of the Seven Life-Boatmen Who Were Present at the Centenary Thanksgiving Service
From left to right:—ex-Coxswain Holbrook, of Bembridge, hie of Wight; ex-Coxswain Robert Burton, of Berwick-on-Tweed i Second-Coxswain George Newman, of Worthing Coxswain Walter Fairbairn, of Dunbar and Skateraw; Coxswain Daniel Murphy, of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs