LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Jean and Barbara
Filey, Yorkshire. — During the late afternoon of the 30th of January, 1948, anxiety was felt for the safety of the local fishing coble Jean and Barbara, which was overdue, with a crew of three, and at 5.23 the motor life-boat The Cuttle was...
The Nore Review
Richard Wakeley, aged 12, Perm Cottage, Nore Road, Portishead, near Bristol, produces The Nore Review which he writes and illustrates, distributing carbon copies on foolscap paper to readers.
In December he wrote to Cdr....
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SPANIARD WAS ILL At 4.30 p.m. on 23rd December, 1964, the army authorities in Benbecula reported that a Spanish seaman on the Isle of St. Kilda was seriously ill with suspected typhoid, and that as a helicopter could not help, the life-boat...
The Late Coxswain Captain John Hogg Tynemouth Silver Medal
The Late Coxswain Captain John Hogg Tynemouth Silver Medal. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Barrus
MARINE DIVISION Suppliers of OUTBOARD ENGINES RNLI for over 25 years to the INSHORE LIFEBOATS £ W As a result of an appeal to raise funds by the Lawnflite garden machinery division of E.P.BARRUS Ltd.
A new 'D...
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The Triple-Screw Motor Yacht Shirley Bourne
Ramsgate, Kent. — At 5.20 in the afternoon of the 26th of March, 1949, in a dense fog, the watchman on the East Pier reported that cries for help could be heard, and five minutes later the life-boat Prudential left her moor- ings. A light...
Roller Skids
THERE are doubtless few persons that reside on, or have visited, our coasts who have not frequently watched with interest the picturesque groups of fishermen and other boatmen hauling up their boats, and observed the contrivances by which...
Category: Articles
Littleover and Ilkeston Branches
Boxing clever: Les Brunskill of Alvaston, Derby, makes bird boxes and sells them for £2.50 each, all of which goes to the RNLI. He has made no fewer than 185 of them so far, at a total value of £462.50. He charges nothing for the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Heire (1)
FEBRUARY 2ND. - SENNEN COVE, AND PENLEE, CORNWALL. At 5.17 P.M. the coastguard reported a vessel was in distress, and the motor life-boat The Newbons was launched at 6 P.M. A strong N.E. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The lifeboat...
Ole Sif, of Copenhagen
Mallaig, Inverness-shire - At 10.20 a.m. on I2th January, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a ship was aground at Barony Point, Morvern. The life-boat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin left her moorings at 10.30 in a fresh north...