LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Patronita
Hastings, Sussex. At 9.50 on the morning of the 4th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yawl Patronita of Portsmouth needed help eight miles south-east of Hastings. This informa- tion had been received...
Neco Marine Ltd
AUTOMATIC PILOT To hold a set course in all conditions REPEATER COMPASS For easy reading and optimum siting ANCHOR WINDLASS 1,800 Ibs pull from 12-220 volt D.C. supply ELECTRIC CAPSTAN Push-button control of 1,000 Ibs pull DAVIT HOIST For...
Category: Advertisement
Fig 1: Welding In Progress on the Workshop Floor: (Above) the Engine Bearers Are Assembled
Fig 1: Welding in progress on the workshop floor: (above) the engine bearers are assembled . . .. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Letters
RNLI stamps • I am associated with the Appledore branch of the RNLI, for which Mr Barrie Smale, of Blacon, Chester, is a keen charity stamp collector. I first learned of the Institution when I read a letter written by Mr Smale about the...
Category: Correspondence
Life-Boats In the Battle of Britain.
The defeat of Germany's air attack on this country in the autumn of 1940, known as the Battle of Britain, lasted, according to the official accounts, from August 8th. to October 31st. During these 85 days life-boats were launched to the...
Category: Articles
Brighton Naming
Radio and television commentator Brian Johnston and his wife visited Brighton to name the local inshore life-boat the St. Marylebone Dolphin. Mrs. Johnston is chairman of the St.
Marylebone life-boat branch which raised the...
Category: Inaugurations
The Life-Boat Institution and Salvage of Property
IF any excuse were necessary for again reverting to this subject in these pages, it is assuredly to be found in its importance to all concerned, viz., the owners of ships and cargoes; the various marine insurance and salvage associations;...
Category: Articles
Lady Luck
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 4.15 on the morning of the 24th of February, 1955, the police rang up to say that the 16-feet outboard motor boat Lady Luck, of Morecambe, which had put out with two men on board, was overdue.
At 5...
A Fishing Boat
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 10.30 on the night of the 20th of August, 1958, the police reported that two fishermen were overdue and that flames had been seen from Cobo Bay in a north-westerly direction. At 10.45 the life-boat Euphrosyne...