LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Taste of the Past
Taste of the past / am writing to tell about some events here in Sweden this summer. Let me start back in 1855 when the first lifeboat station was established in Sweden near Sandhammaren, on the south east comer of Sweden, opposite the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
and on Her Way to the 'Casualty'
. . . and on her way to the 'casualty' . . .. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Holyhead Lifeboat Launches Before Her Naming
Holyhead lifeboat launches before her naming.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Satanicle
Torbay, Devon.—On the night of the 30th December the motor life-boat George Shee rescued the master of the trawler Satanicle, of Cherbourg, which was in distress in the Channel. The life-boat was on service for ten hours in a whole gale,...
(Below) Basildon Branch Raised the Funds to Purchase the Present Burnham-On-Crouch Ilb
(Below) Basildon branch raised the funds to purchase the present Burnham-on-Crouch ILB—-and has already set as its target for the future a replacement boat. Last autumn Connor O'Brien, chairman of Basildon District Council, came to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Opening of the Kirkcudbright New Life-Boat House
ON the 30th November last a double event of a most interesting nature took place at the Lake, near Kirkcudbright, when the new Life-boat house, recently built by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT ' INSTITUTION, was opened and formally handed...
Category: Inaugurations
A Small Boat
MAROONED ON THE ROCKS Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 1.43 in the afternoon of April the 22nd, 1947, the Ballycastle coastguard reported that a man, who had been missing in a small boat since the 20th had been reported on the Maidens Rocks,...
Barrus
Mariner doesn't just promise reliability.
It proves it! It you're considerin have noticed that almo? an outboard, whatever the size, you'll lanufacturer promises greater reliability as an important reason tor...
Category: Advertisement
Sea Beat (Continued from Page 270)
(continued from page 270) away and, on the first attempt to launch through the heavy surf, the boat was thrown back broadside on to the beach.
With perseverance, however, the crew managed to get through the surf and then...
Category: Articles
Notus
Norwegian yacht aground IN THE EARLY HOURS of Saturday, June 20, 1987, Ramsgate's 44ft Waveney class lifeboat Ralph and Joy Swann launched in response to a message from Dover Coastguard MRCC that red flares and a MAYDAY signal had been...