LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Nicolaou Virginia
MARCH 27TH - 29TH. - TENBY, AND ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE. In the early morning of the 27th the Greek steamer Nicolaou Virginia, bound from Bahia Blanca to Glasgow with a cargo of grain, ran ashore on the rocks at Flimston Head and was badly...
New Ways of Raising Money
Mrs. Smith of Southport has handed to the Southport Guild the sum of £5, raised by a collection of a penny a week contributed by each member of the St. Andrew's Inner Wheel over 6o's Club.
Topsham Sailing Club...
Category: Donations
The Jersey Boat
JUNE 28 TH . - ST, PETERPORT, GUERNSEY, On 26th of June the honorary secretary at St Helier, Jersey, telephoned to the Institution that he was unable to get a crew to take his life-boat to Cowes, which it had been arranged that he should do,...
Life-Boat Broadcasts In 1951
THE principal life-boat broadcast in 1951 was in November, when "The Life-boat Story" was told in a series Science and Life in the programme London Calling Asia. Colonel A. D.
Burnett Brown, the secretary, Com-...
Category: Articles
Two Cromer Life-Boatmen Drowned
ON the morning of 27th July eight crab boats put out from Cromer, with a gale blowing. The sea was moderate, but heavy for small boats. It got heavier while the men were attending to the crab pots. The coastguard had them under observation,...
Category: Obituaries
Inside the D Class
D class lifeboat Aerial Gecko Marine Safety Helmet (complete) Lifejacket Typhoon Dry Suit 40hp Mariner Engine with Tool Kit Self Drainer (Port and Starboard) This poster has been part sponsored by AV*N Manufacturer of the RNLI's D...
Category: Articles
Millom Castle
On the same day that the first rescue of the crew of the Arctic Prince took place, the ketch Millam Castle, of Barrow, was seen making signals for help in St.
Tudwal's Outer Roads, Cardigan Bay.
She...
Engine Room Fig 1 (Above)
Engine room. Fig. 1 (above) Tank top has been fitted between starboard engine bearers, forming top of starboard watertight double bottom, and plywood floors (pierced with ventilation holes) have been fitted in wing compartments.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Boat fire off beachy head
18 December: Both Eastbourne lifeboats were launched when distress flares were spotted 2 miles south of Beachy Head. A pilot boat that was first on the scene took a lone angler off the ablaze 8.3m motor cruiser...
Category: Articles
Rennyhill
Aberdeen.—At 2.11 early on the morning of the 29th of March, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that he had heard long and short blasts on a siren from a vessel near the harbour or lighthouse. He later stated that the lighthouse keeper...