LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters (From Page 143)
trolley as the only mechanical means of conveying anything to the Point from Kilnsey was especially interesting because it was on this vehicle that I had to transport my boxes of books. Memory tells me that there was never any wind available...
Category: Correspondence
Competitors In the Strenuous Wards Hill Challenge Aboard Kirkwall's Arun Class Lifeboat
Competitors in the strenuous Wards Hill Challenge aboard Kirkwall's Arun class lifeboat Mickie Salveson. There are four hills to climb - but the snag is they are on four different islands and there is 73 miles of cycling and 8 miles of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Conditions at operational limits Thanks on Vellum awarded to New Brighton coxswain Anight-time rescue in atrocious conditions on the River Mersey led to thanks from the RNLI for the helmsman, crew and shorehelpers of the New Brighton...
September (1)
CROY, DUNURE, AYRSHIRE. While working on Croy shore about 12.30 in the afternoon of the 20th August, 1942, two men saw an aeroplane crash into the sea about half a mile from the shore. The weather was fine and the sea calm. The pilot got...
Category: Services
Belgian Trawler In Distress Off Kentish Coast
AT 2.24 on the morning of the llth January, 1962, the Deal coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary of the Margate life-boat station, Mr. H. B.
Fleet, that a small vessel had been seen by the Dutch motor vessel...
Category: Services
Caroline
HAYLE, CORNWALL.—The three-masted schooner Caroline, of Padstow, bound from Hayle for Cardiff with sand, while being towed out of the harbour, in a j moderate W.N.W. breeze and a very heavy ground sea, on the 23rd January, stranded on the...
The Crew In the D Class Lifeboat
Above (t-rl: Martin Jones. Jason Stopforth and Derek Demon. - View image in PDF
the crew in the D class lifeboat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lights and Lighthouses
HAVING in our last number described the buildings and floating vessels from which beacon lights are exhibited, we have now to give some account of the nature and history of the lights themselves.
At a very remote period,...
Category: Articles
In Distress In Bridlington Bay
(From the painting by John Taylor Allerston, an eye-witness.).
Category: Drawings
A Powered 25ft Pleasure Craft
Family brought ashore ON THE EVENING OF August bank holiday Monday, August 25, 1986, the week of Hurricane Charlie, the honorary secretary of Weymouth lifeboat received a call from the coastguard to say that a family was marooned on their...