LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Steamer
FEBRUARY 27TH. - THE LIZARD, CORNWALL.
At eleven in the morning the coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities had asked for the services of the life-boat to search for survivors of a steamer which had been torpedoed...
Astros
REFLOATING A TRAWLER Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 6.20 in the morning of the 2nd of September, 1947, the coastguard reported a trawler ashore south of Rattray Head, with a bad list to port. The motor life-boat Julia Park Barry, of Glasgow,...
Coxswain George Taylor, of Hauxley, Northumberland
George Taylor, who, since 1909, had been Coxswain of the Life-boat at Hauxley, Northumberland, was drowned while fishing on llth November of last year. During his Coxswainship the Hauxley Life-boat rescued 62 lives, and he was specially...
Category: Obituaries
Sunderland Lifeboat Station
On your bike: Harry Brown, setting off from Sunderland, only to return there 7 hours, 48 minutes and 41 seconds later having covered 154 miles on the way to York Minster and back. Sponsors were asked to estimate the time he would take and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above: Stormy Stan, Storm Force Mascot
Above: Stormy Stan, Storm Force mascot, receives the cheque from Stuart Leask and Gordon MacKay. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Aegis Insurances Services (Group) Ltd
Ask yourself these questions and see how much you need...
PERSONAL FINANCIAL PLANNING and INVESTMENT SERVICE * * * What sort of life can I afford when I retire? Building society interest rates keep...
Category: Advertisement
Self-Righting Trials on the Prototype 14M Fab 4, Now the Trent Class,
Self-righting trials on the prototype 14m FAB 4, now the Trent class, with the side keels protecting the propellers clearly visible. The watertight integrity of the superstructure is vital to self-righting and the design must take into... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Your shout
I live on a Dutch barge moored on the Cadogan Pier in Chelsea. One evening I had retired to bed and was drifting off with the shipping forecast murmuring in the background when a Baskevillian scream punched its way through the open porthole....
Category: Articles
Kristina Thorden
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—On the morning of the 24th of November, 1956, a message was received from the Swedish motor vessel Kristina Thorden that she had a very sick man on board.
She asked the life-boat to meet her at...
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
BAD times, bad trade and, last not least, bad weather, have all militated against a full measure of success to the efforts and labours of the Life-boat Saturday workers during the past year, but notwithstanding difficulties, often of no...
Category: Articles