LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Rnli In Ireland By Lieut-Colonel Brian Clark Mc Gm
During the past year Irish lifeboatmen have served with courage and honour. Among other services the Kilmore Quay lifeboat crew experienced the first capsizes of a modern lifeboat; they and the whole station acquitted themselves with...
Category: Articles
A Boat
On the 4th March the Rescue was launched through a heavy surf to the assistance of a ship's boat belonging to the steamer Quail, of Cork, wrecked at the back of the Isle of Wight, and succeeded in bringing safely on shore the master,...
"Please Put It In the Box"
ON London life-boat day a porter at the Savoy Hotel and a cleaner at the gas-rooms at Hackney helped to carry out the full collecting boxes to cars.
Both were offered tips. Both said: " Please put it in the box."...
Category: Donations
Past and Present
40 years ago From THE LIFEBOAT of 1953 In an issue which reports the capsize of a modern fast lifeboat it is interesting to read the remarks of the then Chief Inspector of Lifeboats onthesubjectofself-righting and the design of lifeboats...
Category: Articles
A Yacht
Mallaig, Inverness-shire. At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 8th of September, 1960, a message was received that a small yacht with two people on board had been seen drifting ashore on Traigh Sands eight miles from Mallaig....
The Flamborough Lifeboat Returning from a Service In June, 1967
The Flamborough lifeboat returning from a service in June, 1967.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part X—Engines and Superstructure Fitted: Steering System
A CRANE MOVED into the boatshed at William Osbornes one day last autumn to lift first the twin engines and then the superstructure aboard the 37ft 6in Rother class lifeboat which will be RNLB Shoreline.
The engines are twin...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy
Dinghy capsize A LIFEBOATMAN, John Strachan, who is skipper of a ferry running from Largs Pier to Cumbrae, and Matthew Ramsay and Donald McMillan, skippers of fishing vessels Sea Nymph and Mhari Bhan, who were mooring their boats at Largs...
As Part of Newquay's Very Full Fund-Raising Programme the Ladies of the Guild Join In the Town's Floral Dance When Rear Admiral Wilfred Graham Visited Cornwall In June He Presented a Joint Statu
As part ofNewquay's very full fund-raising programme the ladies of the guild join in the town's floral dance. When Rear Admiral Wilfred Graham visited Cornwall in June he presented a joint statuette to Michael and Pauline Morris: he... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Bodyboard
Surfer Neil Futton was waiting in the water for the next wave to ride and, looking around, noticed a bodyboard floating in the water.
He paddled over and found a man who had stopped breathing. He started to attempt...