LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
LIFEBOAT LAUNCHES
We’re very sorry, but at the time of going to print, we were having technical difficulties with gathering the list of launches. This means we are unable to print the list in the usual way this time. We’re very sorry for any inconvenience.<...
Category: Articles
Return-A-Key
HAVE YOU LOST YOUR KEYS? BY USING ONE OF OUR REGISTERED KEY RINGS. YOU COULD HAVE HAD YOUR LOST KEYS RETURNED WITHIN DAYS TREE' SAVES EXPENSE ON CHANGING LOCKS INCREASES SECURITY SAVES INCONVENIENCE FREEPOST DYMCHURCH KENT TN29OBR...
Category: Advertisement
Gardelwen
Disabled A FISHING VESSEL, Gardelwen, suffering engine and steering failure was reported to the honorary secretary of Barmouth lifeboat station at 0330 on Sunday October 31, 1982. She was 17'/2 miles bearing 265°M from Barmouth and...
Prosperity
— During a moderate S.S.E. gale on the 5th April a vessel was observed at 4.15 P.M. with a signal of distress flying, and as it was apparent that she required assistance, the Life-boat James Stevens No. 7 was sent out. The Life-boat reached...
The S.S. Lesrix and S.S. Empire Pilgrim
JANUARY 26TH. - NEWBURGH, AND ABERDEEN, ABERDEENSHIRE. On the 25th January a very heavy storm of wind and snow broke on the coast. All roads and railways became blocked with snow, making traffic impossible, and telephone wires were broken....
(Top) His Grace the Duke of Atholl Addresses the Annual Meeting of the Scottish Lifeboat Council
(Top) His Grace The Duke of Atholl Addressess The Annual Meeting of the Scottish Lifeboat Council. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Hovercraft Princess Margaret
Hovercraft accident AT 1614 on the afternoon of Saturday March 30, 1985, the cross-channel hovercraft, Princess Margaret, radioed to Dover port control that she had collided with the breakwater on entering the harbour. It was cloudy with...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WICKLOW, IBELAND. -— The Life-boat placed here some years since having become unfit for further service has been replaced by the Institution—a fine new sailing boat of the self-righting type having, with the full concurrence of the Local...
Category: Articles
Bretton Hall
BBIXHAM, SOUTH DEVON.—Bockets were seen and signal guns heard during a S.E.
wind and a very heavy sea on the evening of Sunday the 6th December. The Lifeboat Brian Sates was launched at about 7 o'clock, pulled round...
Profiles
FOR SEVENTY YEARS Mrs Olwyn M.
Lloyd, now in her ninetieth year—just 60 years younger than the RNLI—has been concerned with men of the sea. It seems fitting, therefore, that she and her husband, Mr R. M. Lloyd, celebrated...
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