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Balancing

Date: Spring 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 476

Balancing poles are fitted just before the lifeboat is clear of the water. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Loch Lorgan (1)

Date: March 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 407

TRAWLER AGROUND At 2 p.m. on I3th December, 1963, the life-boat Louise Stephens was launched at the request of the Colne Fishing Company to lay out an anchor in an attempt to refloat the trawler Loch Lorgan of Lowestoft which was ashore at...

None (1)

Date: Winter 1973

Volume: 42

Issue: 443

COXSWAIN DIVES FOR BOY IN a life-saving service at St. Ives, Cornwall, on 26th July, 1972, Coxswain Thomas Cocking, who had been taken to the scene by motor launch ahead of the ILB, dived overboard to assist a boy who was in...

An American Yacht

Date: Winter 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 507

Yacht owner injured by boom Weymouth South West Division A service to an American yacht by Weymouth's 54ft Arun class lifeboat Tony Vandervell has led to a letter of thanks to the station's honorary medical adviser Dr Peter Gibbons...

Rhyl - Mersey Class Lil Cunningham

Date: Autumn 1992

Volume: 52

Issue: 522

The band strikes up at the Rhyl naming ceremony. Photo Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Left: Blackpool's Boathouse

Date: Summer 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 557

Left: Blackpool's boathouse sits in the shadow of the famous tower.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Two More Life-Boats Requisitioned.

Date: September 1943

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 13

In 1940 the fast motor life-boat at Dover was taken over by the Admiralty to be used in rescuing airmen brought down in the sea. The motor life-boat at Plymouth has now been taken over bv the Ministry of War Transport, and the Aberdeen No. 2...

Category: Articles

Calcutta of London

Date: October 1870

Volume: 07

Issue: 78

The Cadgwith life-boat was also launched early on the morning of the 9th February, in a very heavy gale, and proceeded under canvas to the assistance of a large ship which was observed with bowsprit and foremast gone, and in a disabled state...

Cromer Lifeboat Appeal

Date: Autumn 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 490

In at the deep end: Coxswain Richard Davies of Cromer (r) demonstrates the depths to which he will sink in order to collect money for the Cromer lifeboat appeal. The East Anglian branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club held a sponsored snorkel... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

New Life-Boat Transporting Carriage

Date: December 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 382

WORK has been in progress for some years to produce a new carriage for transporting life-boats down to the sea at stations where there is no suitable harbour and no means of launching a life-boat down a slipway. For some time the need has...

Category: Articles