LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dawn, of Grimsby
A similar service was performed by this boat on the 18th August, when the fishing smack Dawn of Grimsby, which had gone ashore in a bad sea, but fine weather, was also got afloat by having assistance, which, from the heavy surf, could not...
Contents
Notes of the Quarter, by the editor 183 Lifeboat Services ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 185 Naming Ceremony: Fleetwood ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 191 Volume XLIV T . n _ D . , _ . , n . In All Respects Ready for Sea, by Joan Davies ....
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Members of Jersey Lifeboat Guild
Members of Jersey Lifeboat Guild, pictured with the St.
Catherine's C class lifeboat. The ladies of the Jersey guild have been running a souvenir stall at the station throughout the summer and were photographed by a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In Development
The RNLI’s naval engineers are developing a new class of all-weather lifeboat, currently codenamed FCB2 (fast carriage boat 2). The FCB2 will replace the Mersey class lifeboat, and the first is expected on station in 2013.
Category: Articles
David Jolly
THE ORIGINAL TILLER MASTER AUTOMATIC STEERING on a COMPASS COURSE For craft 20-45ft. over 100lbs.
thrust. Self-contained unit with simple 2-hole installation. Quickly disengaged, i amp. average...
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Robin Knox-Johnston
Robin Knox-Johnston (r), the yachtsman and a member of the RNLI's committee of management, had a bet with Don Wood (I) on who would be first to Lowestoft in the Round Britain and Ireland Yacht Race. The stake was 20 pairs of boots for... - View image in PDF
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Dingaling
Atlantics join forces to save yacht crew on Chichester Bar The Institution's Bronze medal for bravery has been awarded to crew member Graham Raines of the Hayling Island lifeboat crew following a very difficult rescue involving two...
A Sea Cadet Whaler and Gypsy
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 5.45 on the afternoon of the 30th of September, 1956, the Formby coastguard reported that a Sea Cadet whaler, with three men on board, was on the rocks near Seaforth radio station. At six o'clock the life-boat...
Vale of Conway
During a gale of wind on the 3rd May, the smack Vale of Gonway, of Port Dinorwic, was seen in a disabled state at some distance from the land, off the south end of the Isle of Whithorn, in Wigtonshire. The Life-boat Charley Peek "was...
The Danish Gas Tanker Inga Tholstrup
Gas tanker aground A DANISH GAS TANKER, Inga Tholstrup, ran aground on Craig Waugh, two miles south east of Inchkeith in the Firth of Forth, early in the morning of Monday November 10, 1986. Forth Coastguard alerted Dunbar lifeboat station,...