LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Testerossa (1)
A busy month for St Ives On 21 May 2006, relief Mersey class Royal Shipwright attended the 21m Testerossa, 27 miles north west of St Ives in near-galeforce winds. Sennen Cove's Tyne class Norman Salvesen joined in to achieve 5 knotsto St...
The White Rose of Yorkshire (Right)
The White Rose of Yorkshire (right), escorted by the D class inflatable lifeboat, the Duke of Kent flew north to Staithes where he watched a demonstration launch and crash net recovery of the Atlantic 21 lifeboat. After visiting Redcar he... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Barrus
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Lifeboats Royal National Lifeboat Institution Has been relying on Mariner Outboard Engines from E. P. Barrus Ltd for over 20 years.
These engines have been specially...
Category: Advertisement
A Motor Boat (1)
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 12.20 a.m. on I5th June, 1967, a report was received that shouts for help were coming from the sea off Sandycover Point. The life-boat John F. Kennedy slipped her moorings at 12.35 m a calm sea. The tide was...
A Motor Boat
MOTOR BOAT TOWED IN DENSE FOG Walmer, Kent. At 3.33 on the afternoon of the 10th March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that shouts for help had been heard from the promenade from the direction of the sea, and a watchman...
Motor Fishing Boats
Early in the morning of the 8th January some of the motor fishing-boats put to sea, the ; weather at the time being moderate with but little wind. Later the wind shifted into the eastward and brought up a very heavy sea, causing the boats...
None (1)
GULLS MISTAKEN FOR GIRL Appledore, Devon.—At 9.27 in the morning of the 18th of August, 1947, the Westward Ho coastguard reported a girl adrift on a raft in Croyde Bay, and the motor life-boat Violet Armstrong was launched at 9,37 in a light...
A Great Record: Mr. B. J. Newcombe, of Howth
Ix November 1891, Mr. B. J. New- combe was elected a member of the committee of the Howth, Dublin, life-boat station. Eight years later, in January 1900, he was appointed honorary secretary. He served in that office for forty-five years,...
Category: Articles
Roden
Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 11 o'clock in the morning of the 2nd of December, 1948, the Southend coastguard tele- phoned that a trawler was ashore in the Sound of Islay, and that another trawler was standing by, but could not help. The...
None (3)
Three days later, on Wednesday July 30, a message came to the honorary secretary from the Coastguard at 1400 that a bather was in difficulties off Cowden, eight miles to the north. The D class inflatable lifeboat was launched by 1413, manned...