LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Keys to the Door
Lottery winners Mr and Mrs Dilley of Redditch were presented with the keys to their new Volvo 440 Li, first prize in the 56th National Lottery, at the Boat and Caravan Show, Birmingham on 14 February.
The Dilleys (above... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cb Or Vhp? from Page 51
We must remember that, by and large, the area covered by a local REACT organisation will be governed by the range of its equipment. This area can of course be extended by relaying emergency messages on CB from user to user until they reach...
Category: Articles
Disposition of Life-Boats
The Michael Stephens (ex-Exmouth) has been placed in the reserve fleet along with the Crawford and Constance Conybeare (ex-Falmouth). The Gertrude (ex-Holy Island) has gone to Exmouth, and the Lilla Marras, Douglas and Will (ex-Cromarty) is...
Category: Articles
The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Llandaff Blesses Barry Dock's Two Lifeboats the 52' Arun and 41' Watson Susan Ashley During a Service of Re-Dedication and Thank
The Right Reverend The Lord Bishop of Llandaff blesses Barry Dock's two lifeboats, the 52' Arun and 41' Watson Susan Ashley during a service of re-dedication and thanksgiving on Sunday, August 22, 1976, to commemorate the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Canoe (2)
Salcombe, Devon. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 1st September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two people in a canoe were stranded on the rocks at Steeple Cove near Bolt Head. At 3.35 on the ebbing tide the...
Mary Ann
Co.
DOWN.—The schooner Mary, of New- bridge, Cornwall, made signals of dis- tress on the afternoon of the 5th November. A strong W.N.W. gale was raging, and the Carrickfergus Life- boat put off to her assistance, but their...
The Tamar's Pre-Production Hull
The Tamar's Pre-Production Hull. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portrait of a Coxswain
Coxswain Kenneth J. Holland, of the Skegness, Lincolnshire, life-boat Charles Fred Gran- tham. A member of the local life-boat crew since 1947, he was first appointed coxswain in 1965 and then full-time coxswain/mechanic in 1968. Since he...
Category: Articles
March of Liverpool and Richard,of Bangor
On the 19th of February, the schooners March, of Liverpool, and Richard, of Ban- gor, were stranded in Moelfre Bay, during a heavy gale of wind from the N.E. Both vessels at once showed signals of distress, which were promptly responded to...
David Wells, Has Been Helmsman of Clacton-On-Sea's Atlantic 21 Lifeboat
David Wells, has been helmsman of Clacton-on-Sea's Atlantic 21 lifeboat and a crew member of the station's D class lifeboat since 1983. From 1972 he was a crew member of the station's allweather lifeboat which was replaced in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs