LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Stingray
Rhyl, Flintshire. On 5th December, 1965, the coastguard reported that four vessels appeared to be sheltering under the lee of Penmon Head opposite Old Colwyn and that one of the vessels was drifting. A watch was kept and the motor fishing...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE.— In response to signals of distress from a vessel at anchor on the north-west side of the Hugo Bank, the Life- boat Charlie Medland was launched shortly after 3 P.M. on the 5th January.
They...
Category: Services
Mr. John Miller, M.B.E.
MR. JOHN MILLER, the honorary secretary of the Thurso station, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the Birthday Honours List, 1948. Mr. Miller became honorary secretary in March, 1914, and retired in May, 1948, after...
Category: Articles
Here and There
FOLLOWING THE RESCUE OH August 12 of a student who had fallen over cliffs at Petit Tor, Torbay ambulance divisional commander, John Bourne, told Torbay honorary secretary, Captain Barry Anderson, how impressed he was with the way the ILB...
Category: Articles
Emmett Marine Ltd.
High speed self priming fluid pump that moves approximately 3 gallons per minute. You simply attach to a £" electric drill.
For pumping out.
Engine sumps, boat bilges, fuel tanks...
Category: Advertisement
H. M. S. Sappho
In the dense fog which prevailed in the Channel on the night of the 19th June, H.M.S. Sappho collided with another vessel off Dunge- ness. By a strange coincidence the colliding ship was also named the Sappho. The position of the cruiser...
Fishing Cobles (2)
The motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at 9.10 A.M. on the 29th December, as the sea was very rough, the weather was thick, and several fishing cobles were at sea. She went to the back of the pier and fell in with the Bertha May,...
Outside Victoria Station
Life-boatmen up for the annual meeting. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Church Kneelers
The R.N.L.I. Depot at Boreham Wood, Herts., has to be ready to tackle almost any request for help. A recent one was for a life-boat design for 60 new church kneelers for Flamborough. A design was turned out incorporating a life-boat and the...
Category: Articles
Coxswain Walter Semple of Cloughey
Winner of the bronze medal for gallantry (See page 249). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs