LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ceres, of Lyme
On the night of the 18th August, intelligence was received at Lynie Regis that a vessel was in distress, being anchored off a lee-shore in a heavy gale, 15 miles to the eastward of Lyme. At 4 A.M.
on the 19th, the...
Temporary Measure the Floor of the Old Building Had Been Lowered (Below)
as a temporary measure the floor of the old building had been lowered (below) so that the lifeboat would fit inside!. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Flo & Dick Smith Is Launched. In the Background Is the Trearddur Bay Lifeboat Station
Flo & Dick Smith is launched. In the background is the Trearddur Bay lifeboat station and the crowd who attended the ceremony. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bronze Medal Service By the Portpatrick Life-Boat
A Twelve Hours' Service in a Whole Gale.
AT 8.25 in the evening of 13th January a wireless message was received by the Coastguard at Portpatrick, Wigtown- shire, that a vessel was showing signals of distress off the...
Category: Services
(Left) D Class Inflatable:
(left) D class inflatable: length overall 15ft 6in; beam 6ft 4in; draught 17in; displacement 0.25 tons; maximum speed, 20 knots; range at full speed, 60 nautical miles. The D class inflatable, introduced in 1963, has a crew of two; she... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Vip Launch:
VIP launch: the Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, was given the task of striking the releasing pin to set Douglas lifeboat on her way down the slipway when he visited the station in June. Douglas, on the Isle of Man, was where the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Golf Competitions
AN appeal was again made, at the beginning of 1935, to the principal Golf Clubs in Great Britain and Ireland, asking them to hold competitions in aid of the life-boat service, for which the Institution would give silver and enamel spoons. As...
Category: Articles
Hunstanton's Atlantic 21Class Lifeboat Spirit of America
Hunstanton's Atlantic 21class lifeboat Spirit of America is capable of some 29 knots. Helmsman Alan Clarke said of her: 'Speed is one of her greatest assets and can be paramount in saving life - but she can only be driven as hard as... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Hillman Air Liner G-ACPM
Dover, Kent.—2nd October. The Hillman air liner G-ACPM crashed in the Channel, and broke in pieces, all seven on board being killed.—Rewards, £2 17s..
A Fleet Air Arm Barracuda Aeroplane
SEPTEMBER 7TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
At 4.40 in the afternoon the St.
Anne’s coastguard reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea about three miles west-south-west of Squires Gate. A light north...