LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Angelic Wings, of Piraeus
Humber, Yorkshire - At 11.25 a.m.
on 25th October, 1969, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a sick man aboard the m.v. Angelic Wings of Piraeus, which was anchored 12 miles south of Spurn lighthouse,...
Below: William Hadley Crosses the Line
Below: William Hadley crosses the finish tine of the 2001 Flora London Marathon without a stick of celery in sight'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Small Boat Named Bee
At about 4.45 P.M. on 28th December, 1931, information was received from a fisher- man that a small boat, with two men, had been seen drifting helplessly out to sea. A moderate N.N.W. gale was blowing with a rough sea. The Motor Life-boat...
Athol, of Ardrossan
On the 29th January, the schooner Atkol, of Ardrossan, was observed riding heavily between Irvine and Lady's Isle. The wind was blowing from the N.W., with heavy squalls and showers of rain.
The Pringle Kidd life-boat...
Alma, of Malta
The large life-boat Birmingham, on this station, was launched on the 28th October to the barque Alma, of Malta, which, while lying about a cable's length from the buoy of the West Scroby Sand, had dragged one anchor and had then hoisted...
RNLI Lifeboats on the Thames
RNLI Lifeboats On The Thames. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
47-001 City of London (Above)
Two views illustrating the change in sheer between the two prototypes and the later production boats.
47-001 City of London (above) has the small 'kick1 in the sheer to accomodate the steeper deck camber and false side... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Huniber lifeboat crew at the retirement party in September for Coxswain Superintendent Robertson Buchan
Huniber lifeboat crew at the retirement party in September for Coxswain Superintendent Robertson Buchan (centre left) with the new coxswain, Mr Neil Morris, of Withernsea (right). In picture (right) Mr Buchan is examining the radar scanner... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The War Department Landing Craft L.405
Stromness, Orkneys.—At seven o'clock on the evening of the 9th of December, 1955, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up to say that a landing barge had run ashore at Ness Beacon. At 7.18 the life-boat Archibald and Alexander...