LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mr. J. G. Oldfield, of Whitehaven
Mr. J. G. Oldfield, of Whitehaven, Cumberland, who died in May, was the Honorary Secretary of the Whitehaven Station from 1890 to 1925, when it was closed. Since then he has been the Honorary Treasurer of the Financial Branch. In...
Category: Obituaries
Your shout
Keep our launches!
In response to Christopher Hansen’s comment last issue, please do not give up the lifeboat launchings summary. You can’t possibly feature more than a very few high-profile rescues in...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BACTON, NORFOLK.—The Institution replaced the life-boat on this station last October, by a new boat 33 feet long, rowing 10 oars double-banked, and provided with a transporting-carriage. The old boat, while out on service, had been damaged,...
Category: Articles
Yves Chantral, of St. Malo
Fowey, Cornwall - At 11.5 p.m. on 5th May, 1967, a report was received of a red flare two to three miles south of Gorran Haven. The life-boat Deneys Reitz slipped her moorings at 11.38 in a fresh south south westerly wind and a moderate sea....
PAUL HANCOCK HELM ROCK LIFEBOAT STATION
We were paged, got to the station and told we were looking for someone in the water. The conditions were wind against tide … rough, choppy, an extremely cold wind. The area we searched is between an island and headland – the tide runs... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Right) the Grp Hull Is Stiffened With Frames (18" Maximum Centres) and Longitudinals Constructed of Foam Formers Over-Laminated With Chopped Glass Mat, Unidirectio
(Right) The GRP hull is stiffened with frames (18" maximum centres) and longitudinals constructed of foam formers over-laminated with chopped glass mat, unidirectional tape and resin.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
Heroism and tragedy as ship goes ashore in 50ft breakers One Gold Medal Five Bronze Medals Two Thanks on Vellum with a 3,000-ton cargo vessel just yards off a rockstrewn coastline, and being driven inexorably ashore by breaking seas almost...
Category: Services
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
LINCOLNSHIRE.—The Lincolnshire Shipwreck Society—the last remaining of the County Shipwreck Associations — having been brought into union with the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, the latter has completely renovated the four life-boat...
Category: Articles
An Admiralty Tug
THREE LIFE-BOATMEN OVERBOARD NOVEMBER 9TH - 10TH. - MONTROSE, AND BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. Shortly after six in the evening an Admiralty tug was bombed from the air. The Montrose coxswain saw the bombs dropping. Thinking that the life-boat...
A Silver Medal Service at Cloughey
ON 9th May, 1939, the s.s. Arantzazu- Mendi, of Bilbao, went aground on Butter Paddy shoals, outside Kearney Point, Co. Down. Efforts were made to salve her, and there was a salvage party on board on 17th June. A strong S.S.W. wind was...
Category: Services