LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Brookes & Gatehouse Ltd
AnnouncingHectaFlOO A small echo sounder with a big punch! Hecta Model F100, while embodying many of the features of the well-proven 30 and 60 fathom instruments, has a transmitter of greatly increased power (in a separate case, as shown...
Category: Advertisement
The West and East German Lifeboat Organisations
The West and East German lifeboat organisations have now combined to form a single lifeboat service. This is the former West German 'daughter boat' Onkel W/ffi being recovered aboard the parent vessel during a demonstration at the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rnlb William and Laura
RNLB William and Laura, late of Newcastle, Northern Ireland, was taken out of retirement in Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, to help Bangor branch in a fundraising effort last April. Over the ten days she was at Clandeboye Shopping Centre... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The East German M.V. Saale (3)
Eastbourne, Newhaven, Shoreham Harbour and Selsey, Sussex - At 9.45 p.m. on 7th January, 1967, a message was received that the East German m.v.
Saale, which was on fire, required assistance.
The life-boat...
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Aberdeen.—At 12.20 in the morning of the 6th of November, 1951, the city police telephoned for help in rescuing people who were trapped by flood water at a caravan camp on the banks of the River Dee at Milltimber. A south-easterly gale was...
The Sand Dredger Ron Woolaway
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 11.58 on the night of the 18th of June,1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the sand dredger Ron Woolaway had capsized near Flatholm Island but that her crew of seven were safely...
Sujan III
Aldeburgh, Suffolk - At 1.40 a.m. on 14th May, 1967, news was received that a small yacht was drifting off the Sizewell bank with her engines out of action. The life-boat Alfred and Patience Gottwald was launched at 2.10 in a fresh north...
Statement of the Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution During the Month of December, 1874
wtck. Site of Wreck. Wind and Weather. Name of Vessel. 1874.
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Category: Services
Obituaries
Obituaries With deep regret we record the following deaths: SEPTEMBER 1989: Mr Geoff Shakerley, vice chairman and box secretary of Wootton Bassett and District branch from 1977 until his death. He was also a shore helper at Swanage and was...
Category: Obituaries
A Sailing Dinghy (2)
Kirkcudbright.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 20th of January, 1957, a message was received from the police that two men had put out in a small dinghy to go duck-shooting on the morning of the day before and had not returned....