LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Year of War.
In the first year of war life-boats were launched to the rescue 1108 times and rescued 2302 lives. They rescued more lives in this one year of war than in the last five years of peace. They rescued on the average 44 lives a week. In the last...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (9)
MARCH 3RD. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND EYEMOUTH, AND ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. About 3.15 in the afternoon men were seen to bale out from an aeroplane which crashed in the sea some two miles off Burnmouth. A light westerly wind...
Guernsey Ladies' Guild Has Its Own 'Lifeboat' a Mobile Souvenir Stall Which Attracts Great Interest Wherever She Goes Roger Wood Designed Lady Goodwill and Built Her With
Guernsey ladies' guild has its own 'lifeboat', a mobile souvenir stall which attracts great interest wherever she goes. Roger Wood designed Lady Goodwill and built her with the help of other lifeboat supporters; materials were... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
E. L. Watson Ltd
Increases Safety and Comfort Board Trade APPROVED.
Complies BSI 3595 : 1969.
Cellular plastic material containing cells which are totally closed and full of air.
Soft, permanently buoyant...
Category: Advertisement
The Ocean Youth Club's 70Ft Training Vessel Francis Drake
Helping hand for youngsters The Ocean Youth Club's 70ft training vessel Francis Drake is pictured being given a helping hand by Ramsey's Oakley James Ball Ritchie on 8 August, 1988.
The yacht's auxiliary engine... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A day in the life
As Sunday 12 June unfolded, lifeboat crews were called into action all around the coast, from the Firth of Forth to County Cork …
Given that lifeboats launched 24 times a day on average in 2010...
Category: Articles
M.F.V. Venture
MFV standing into danger SHEERNESS deputy launching authority heard from Warden Point Coastguard at 2200 on March 22,1974, that a boat three-quarters of a mile east north east of the Coastguard lookout was exhibiting red hand flares and was...
Early Publicity:
Early publicity: this photograph of three committee members provided some excellent advance publicity for Banbury's 1986 flag week. Alan Pennington, Banbury branch publicity secretary, seen here sandwiched between chairman David Gittins... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs