LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Winner (1)
Holy Island, and North Sunderland, Northumberland.—At 10.40 on the night of the 26th of August, 1956, the coastguard reported that the fishing boat Winner of Holy Island, skippered by the life-boat coxswain, which had left at 5.30 that...
An Air-Sea Rescue launch
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 29th of September, 1960, the Royal Air Force detachment at Tenby requested the use of the life- boat Henry Comber Brown to tow in one of their air-sea rescue launches, which had broken...
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
The Life-Belts Used By the Crews of the Life-Belts of the National Life-Belt Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (maximum 28 Ibs., minimum 25 Ibs.) to support a m«n heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support auother...
Category: Articles
Swiftsure, of Fraserburgh
Life-boat 70-002 at Ullapool - At 6 a.m. on ist February, 1967, a fisherman told the coxswain that a fishing boat had struck a rock in the vicinity of Gruisard Bay and was being towed towards Ullapool.
Although the crew...
The Toaster on the Left - the One With Rnli On
The toaster on the left - the one with RNLI on it - won the golden toaster award (the more conventional one on the right) in Noel Edmonds' Late Late Breakfast Show on BBC TV. The country's most powerful toaster, capable of shooting a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rosemary V
Torbay, Devon.—At 2.42 early on the morning of the 6th of December, 1953, the Brixham coastguard rang up to say that shouts for help had been heard off Freshwater Quarry. At 3.10 the life- boat George Shee put to sea. There was a slight...
Pulling a Fast One?
Pulling a fast one? There is no truth whatsoever in the rumour that the RNLI trials team are looking for an alternative means of lifeboat propulsion and asked the Director to acheive 25 knots under oar! Brian Miles, right, is actually... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sir John Snell and Lizbeth M
Margate, Kent.—At 7.3 on the morn- ing of the 4th of April, 1957, the coast- guard telephoned that two vessels had been in collision one mile north-east of Spit buoy. The life-boat St. Mary's, on temporary duty at the station, was...
The Troopship S.S. Archangel
MAY 17TH . - FRASERBURGH, AND PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 1.18 A.M. the naval authorities at Rosyth asked, through the Fraserburgh coastguard, that the Fraserburgh life-boat should he got ready to launch. A few minutes later the station was...