LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Help of Coxswains and Crews
THE Institution is fortunate in often having the help of its Coxswains and Crews, not only in manning the Life- boats, but in raising funds, sometimes by their personal efforts and sometimes in the form of gifts out of salvage money which...
Category: Donations
The Aberdeen Life-Boat's Journey to Her Station
By Captain Howard F. I. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Importer of Life-boats.
THIS Life-boat left Cowes for her station on Saturday, 22nd October last. She is a sister boat to the new Plymouth Life-boat described in the last...
Category: Articles
The Fishing Boats, Mizpah and Norseman
Two local motor fishing boats, Mizpah and Norse- man, put to sea early on the morning of 1 st December. Later a strong southerly breeze sprang up, reaching gale force in squalls, and a rough sea, with broken water, was running across the...
Two New Appointments
MAJOR JAMES DISLEY has been ap- pointed District Organizing Secretary for the north-west of England. Major Disley, who is aged 43, was educated at the Sorbonne and Louvain Univer- sity. He served in the Intelligence Corps and later in the...
Category: Committee
Signature
Tragedy as five are swept overboard from charter ya cht A short but difficult search for survivors from a yacht which had been knocked down in the entrance to Tynemouth harbour has earned three of Tynemouth lifeboat's crew letters of...
Fig 6: Brian Augustus Inspects Antibounce Device In Control Box Weighted Gravity Sensitive Lever Can Be Seen In Centre Pressure Gauge on Top Left and a Tube of Silica Gel C
Fig. 6: Brian Augustus inspects antibounce device in control box. Weighted gravity sensitive lever can be seen in centre, pressure gauge on top left and a tube of silica gel crystals (to ensure there is no moisture in this watertight box)... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hilda II and Betty
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 24th of March, 1954, the weather worsened, making the harbour entrance dangerous. Two local fishing cobles, the Hilda II and Betty, were at sea. The life-boatmen assembled, but the Hilda II...
After Cockpit Well: Fig 3 (Left) Beams
After cockpit well: Fig. 3 (left) Beams and, Fig. 4 (right) side decks are fitted. Straight run back of after end of cartings, inboard of side decks, will take sliding wheelhouse doors. All spaces under beams will be filled with shaped,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
H.M.M.S. 106
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT LOWESTOFT SEPTEMBER 30TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. At 9.40 in the evening the naval authorities asked that the motor life-boat Michael Stephens should go out to the help of a vessel which was ashore about one and a half...
The S.S. Guildford
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 12.44 early on the morning of the 10th of March, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the S.S. Guildford, of London, had been in collision three miles north of Whitby.
He later gave the position as...