LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Welded Aluminium Construction Is Lighter Than Steel
Welded aluminium construction is lighter than steel and is well suited to the construction of carriage launched lifeboats, where steel is too heavy and abrasion problems make GRP unsuitable. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
STRANDED IN A CAVE
MINEHEAD | 18 DECEMBER
Minehead lifeboat crew launched at first light after a husband and son reported their wife/mother missing. She had slipped 3m down a cliff near her home in Porlock, Devon, and – unable to climb back up –...
Category: Services
Lark
In a strong E.S.E. gale, thick weather, and very choppy sea, on the 13th'December, the steam trawler Lark, belonging to Hull, and bound for that port with a load of fish, stranded on the rocks about five miles north of Flamborough Head...
The Barges Greenhithe and Lord Rosebery
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—Late on the night of the 16th November, 1937, the coastguard reported that two barges were dragging their anchors. The weather was bad, and the coxswain kept in touch with the...
La Quinta
Injured seaman A TANKER, La Quinta, approaching Salcombe bound for Liverpool with a member of her crew seriously injured was reported to the honorary secretary of Salcombe lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1157 on Saturday, 21 May. A...
Thetis
LONDON BARGE ADRIFT Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.45 in the afternoon of the 8th of April, 1947, the motor life-boat Greater London, Civil Service No. 3 put out in a strong west-south-west gale, with a very rough sea, to search for a missing...
Silver and Gold Also, and Even Notes
Saturday.—Life-boat Saturday — splendid institution—come now, you other chaps, fork out your subscriptions; Pee unfortunately left my parse at home (not that there's anything in it). Bat come, chuck 'em a copper—silver or gold will...
Category: Articles
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston: the Coaster Sea Rhine Her Cargo Shifted Founders Her Mate Had Been Taken Off By the 44' Waveney Lifeboat Khami
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston: The coaster Sea Rhine, her cargo shifted, founders. Her mate had been taken off by the 44' Waveney lifeboat Khami.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
RA Range Benbecula Outer Hebrides
A snooker match worthy of Dennis Taylor and Steve Davis took place at the RA Range, Benbecula, Outer Hebrides. Eight members of the sergeants' mess played snooker non-stop for two days, pocketing £386.45 for the Institution as a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Vic & Billie Whiffen at Southend-On-Sea
The late Vic Whitten's brother, Edgar Whiffen and his wife at the naming ceremony. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs