LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Split-Second Timing Is Needed With Many Manoeuvres None More So Than the Emergency Beaching Procedure - the Outboards Must Be Raised at Exactly the Right Moment
Split-second timing is needed with many manoeuvres, none more so than the emergency beaching procedure - the outboards must be raised at exactly the right moment. - View image in PDF
(Photo David Parker). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Robert
REDCAR.—On the morning of the 7th September the sloop Robert, of Hull, which had been anchored for three weeks off Redcar, engaged in removing portions of the wreck of a steamer, weighed her anchor and made sail, her position having become...
October
Launches 74. Lives rescued 140.
OCTOBER 1ST - 22ND. - CROMER, NORFOLK. During the month both of the Cromer life-boats were launched several times and gave help to the S.S. Teddington, which had stranded after enemy attack...
Category: Services
A Canoe
Weymouth, Dorset - At 12.50 a.m.
on gth June, 1967, it was felt that two people who had put out in a canoe from Weymouth beach might be in difficulties.
The life-boat Frank Spiller Locke slipped her...
Wells-Next-The-Sea 's Harbour Almost Dries Out at Low Water.
Wells-next-the-Sea 's harbour almost dries out at low water. The network of channels leading to the quay can clearly be seen in this aerial view. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Gift of Gold
The Institution has received, carefully packed in cotton wool, 46 sovereigns and n half sovereigns. All but two have Queen Victoria's head, and their dates range from 1845 to 1901. They came with the message -for those in peril on the...
Category: Articles
On Sunday June 5 Mr and Mrs Jack Bunn Were Hosts at the Maybush Inn Newbridge-On-Thames for the Maybush Jubilee Festival and Regatta Organised With Witn
On Sunday, June 5, Mr and Mrs Jack Bunn were hosts at the Maybush Inn, Newbridge-on-Thames, for the Maybush Jubilee Festival and Regatta, organised with Witney branch. Sheep dog handling, country dancing, tug-of-war and an evening of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Kremlin
At 6 A.M.
on the 8th April the Coastguard re- ported that a three-masted steamer was ashore on the north side of Rattray Head. The No. 1 Life-boat George Pickard was launched without delay and proceeded, under sails, to the...
Fishing Boats
PETERHEAD, SCOTLAND.—The People's Journal No. 1 Life-boat was launched at noon on the 5th of January, 1886, some of the boats engaged in the haddock fishery having been overtaken by a strong gale of wind from the N.E. and. a heavy sea....
The Motor Boats Trust in Providence and Vajas
New Brighton, Cheshire - At 6.50 p.m. on nth September, 1966, red flares were sighted off the RI buoy in Rock channel, river Mersey. The life-boat Norman B. Corlett left her moorings ten minutes later. It was three hours before high water....