LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The News Agency Caption Said: 'Life-Boat Designer Mr. Richard Oakley Went Down With His Ship—And Came Up Smiling'
The news agency caption said: 'Life-boat designer, Mr. Richard Oakley, went down with his ship—and came up smiling'. The occasion? Capsizing trials at Portsmouth on 23rd June, 1966, when the second 48-foot 6-inch Oakley life-boat was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Key-Side Concert
Peter Skellern (inset) at the keys of a grand piano aboard a car ferry moored off Polruan quay for an evening concert in aid of the RNLI.
(Photos courtesy Devon and Cornwall Press Agency (inset) and A. G.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The H F Bailey Lifeboat In Which Coxswain Henry Blogg of Cromer Saved So Many Lives Coining Alongside HMS Belfast In the Thames on November 9 When the Pr
The H. F. Bailey lifeboat in which Coxswain Henry Blogg, of Cromer, saved so many lives, coining alongside H.M.S. Belfast in the Thames on November 9 when the press saw the veteran craft which has been sold to Leisure Sport Ltd,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Just the Ticket!
Just the ticket! Upon retirement from 23 years RNLI service, Assistant Manager of Depot General, Angela Miller (right), drew the winners of the 88th Lifeboat Lottery.. - View image in PDF
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Mr David F Aubrey Honorary Secretary of the Port Talbot Ilb Station Writes: "The Mayor on December 8 1972 Invited the Crew for Tea In His Parlour
Mr David F. Aubrey, honorary secretary of the Port Talbot ILB station, writes: "The Mayor on December 8, 1972, invited the crew for tea in his parlour, and during the afternoon lie agreed to sign up for Shoreline and gave the project... - View image in PDF
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New Lifeboat for Newbiggin
A warm and sunny day greeted the 500 guests who attended the naming ceremony of Newbiggin's new Atlantic 75 lifeboat on 22 August at the station's newly refurbished boathouse.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Astronaut
MOTOR BOAT OVERDUE Selsey, Sussex. At 6.40 p.m. on 24th January, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a motor boat with three men on board was overdue at Littlehampton. Mr. Andrews, a member of the Inshore Rescue Scheme, had...
Notts Forest
SICK MAN LANDED FROM TRAWLER Stornoway, Outer Hebrides. At 11.35 on the night of Tuesday the 30th of July, 1963, the Stornoway coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the trawler Notts Forest of Grimsby, on passage to Stornoway to...
Arco
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the morning of the 5th October the coastguard reported a small sailing boat in difficulties about three miles S.E. of Clacton pier. She was the smack Arco, of Leigh-on-Sea, with six men on board. Her sails had been...
The S.S. Joffre Rose, of Liverpool
MAY 12TH. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
At 9 A.M. a message was received from the Kilmichael Point look-out that the S.S. Joffre Rose, of Liverpool, had gone ashore on the mainland south of Pass Head, while bound laden with coal...