LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Impressive Rescue at Newhaven
IT was just after dark on the 26th of March (at 7.12 p.m.) when the coast- guard at Newhaven reported a trawler drifting shorewards, something less than a mile south-east of the harbour.
Quarter of an hour later he said she...
Category: Services
Solskin, of Oslo
Aberdeen.—At 11.50 on the morning of the 9th of November, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that the motor vessel Solskin, of Oslo, needed help sixty miles east of Tod Head. At 12.44 the no. 1 life-boat Hilton Briggs put out. There was a heavy...
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. amp. average...
Category: Advertisement
Shoreline Member Mr Alan Kahn of Essex
Shoreline member Mr Alan Kahn of Essex thought of calling his all-new Renault 5 Francis because "it's as trim as Clare yet as sturdy as Drake" and won himself the five door version (kindly donated by Renault UK Ltd) as a result... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Inaugural Ceremonies: Wales
THE Inaugural Ceremony of the new Motor Life-boat at Moelfre, Anglesey, took place on 17th July, with Commo- dore Sir Richard Henry Williams- Bulkeley, Bt., K.C.B., R.N.R., Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey and a Vice- President of the Institution...
Category: Inaugurations
A Fishing Boat (2)
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. — 18th May. A search was made for a fishing boat which had been last seen twentyseven miles to the N.N.E. She could not be found, but she made Buckie safely next morning.—Rewards, £9 135..
First Event
Although Bexhill-on-Sea has had committees for many years, it was not until last Summer that a membership scheme was launched.
The branch is already 200 strong and its first fundraising event achieved £1,020 at the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rotary Service and City of London Ii
This photograph of Rotary Service and City of London II was taken shortly after the Severn took up station duties at Dover and was the last outing for the Thames before her passage to Poole. - View image in PDF
Photo: Barry McGill. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fowey's Triple
Last October over 400 guests and a targe crowd assembled for a unique triple ceremony at Fowey lifeboat station - the opening of the new boathouse and the naming of the station's new Trent and D class lifeboats.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hope, of Aberystwith
The services of this valuable life-boat were again called into requisition on the evening of the 23rd December under the following circumstances:—A light being observed on the South Bank while it was blowing fresh from the S.W., the...