LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Below Left) 'It's Broke Mister! Can You Fix It?'
(below left) 'It's broke Mister! Can you fix it?' Roy White carries out some running maintenance on the 'towing tank'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat House Wembley
LIFE-BOAT HOUSE at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley was kept open during the Exhibition's second year with the same exhibit of models, gear, pictures and relics as in 1924. A Watson Cabin Motor Life-boat was again the principal...
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Marine Search and Rescue Organisation
THE report of the committee set up to review the Marine Search and Rescue Organisation of the United Kingdom has now been published. Its publication was reported briefly in certain newspapers, but had little editorial...
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Ocean Starlight
Mallaig, Inverness-shire - At 1.40 a.m. on 19th March, 1969, the honorary secretary learnt that the fishing boat Ocean Starlight was ashore on the rocks at the entrance to Mallaig harbour. The life-boat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin slipped her...
A Fishing Boat
About 10.40 A..M on 5th December, 1931, a fishing boat was reported to be in difficulties in the Eastern Bay, and the Motor Life-boat, T.B.B.H., was launched in a strong S.W. wind to her help.
The boat was found to be...
Miss Therm (1)
Blyth, and Tynemouth, Northumber- land. At 1.11 on the afternoon of the 16th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Tynemouth life-boat station that the Whitley Bay police had reported a small boat in...
Mr Mclachlan
G.L. Watson and Company were commissioned by the Institution to prepare the design of the Arun class lifeboat and the lines were the work of Mr J. Allen McLachlan of that firm. The tank tests of the model produced from these lines indicated... - View image in PDF
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Guloy
LIFE-BOATMAN OVERBOARD New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 1.35 in the morning of the 18th of January, 1948, the Formby coastguard tele- phoned that white flares had been seen off C.2 Red Buoy. The life-boat's crew went out in the...
With the Little Ships at Dunkirk
Nineteen RNLI lifeboats played their part in the historic Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in 1940. In 1990 some of those lifeboats, now long retired from active service, returned to...
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Express
ARKLOW. — On the morning of the 28th March, the schooner Express, of and for Wexford, from Dublin, while beating down against a strong S.W. wind between the Arklow Bank and the mainland, the weather at the time being thick, with rain, stood...