LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Motor Boat
No survivors from capsized motor boatThe capsize of a Coastguard rigid inflatable boat added a further twist to a service by Salcombe lifeboat when she was searching in heavy seas and an onshore Force 7 wind on 28 May 1995.
(Below) the Stole Nearest the Body Inflates Automatically When the Wearer Enters the Water
(Below) The Stole Nearest The Body Inflates Automatically When The Wearer Enters The Water. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual Meeting
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 108 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 73 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to - 62,913 June 9th, 1932 Annual Meeting.
THE Hundred and Eighth...
Category: Meetings
A Class of Its Own
A class of its own John Long recently retired as second coxswain of the Barrow lifeboat. In order to relieve his withdrawal symptoms, the crew built him his own 'lifeboat' as a retirement present.
John discovered... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Longhope, Orkneys Life-Boat on Service
(see page 675). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
At Easter Last Year Mrs Shirley Norris of Brixhain Ladies' Guild
At Easier last ear Mrs Shirley Norris of Brixhain ladies' guild opened a 'staircase' stall in the limited space of an estate agents forecourt, by kind permission of Stan Churchill. The £1,000 taken helped to bring the guild... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shallow Waters, of Jersey
At 5.46 p.m. on 25th April, 1967, information was received that a fishing boat returning from the Minquiers had engine trouble and was taking in water.
The life-boat Peter and Sarah Blake, on temporary duty at the station,...
Dorothy
At 1.10 P.M. on the 12th May, a report was received from the Coastguard that a barge was ashore on the Gunfleet Sands.
The Life-boat James Stevens No. 14 was sent to her assistance and found that she was in a very dangerous...
The Eastbourne Lifeboat Duke at Kent Beaches Ready for Recovery After Her Service to the Blazing Ammunition Ship Breydon Merchant on 24 February
The Eastbourne lifeboat Duke at Kent beaches ready for recovery after her service to the blazing ammunition ship Breydon Merchant on 24 February. - View image in PDF
(Photo Paul Russell). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Inaugural Ceremonies In Wales. Tenby and Angle, Pembrokeshire
Tenby and Angle, Pembrokeshire.
D USING August the Inaugural Cere- monies took place of two new Motor Life-boats which have been stationed on the coast of Wales at the Stations of Tenby and Angle, both in Pembroke-...
Category: Inaugurations