LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sailing Club Rescue Boat Viking
Eyemouth, Berwickshire. At 11.15 p.m. on zoth January, 1966, the harbour master informed the honorary secretary that the Border Sailing Club rescue boat, with one man on board her, was adrift on the rocks at the west side of the bay, her...
Coxswain Perrin of Skegness Hands Over Christmas Fare to the Lynn Welllight Vessel
Coxswain Perrin of Skegness Hands Over Christmas Fare To The Lynn Welllight Vessel. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Awarded the Silver Medal for Gallantry: Coxswain Mechanic David Kennett Yarmouth Isle of Wight
Awarded the silver medal for gallantry: Coxswain! Mechanic David Kennett, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sight For Sore Eyes: Martin Gains Control Of The Nephele
A sight for sore eyes: Martin gains control of the Nephele. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ceremonies
Relief - D class Pride ofNuneaton and Bedworth The Borough ofNuneaton and Bedworth is over 90 miles from the sea, but the May or, Councillor Bob Copland, decided to make the funding of two D class lifeboats the aim of his Civic Appeal. Aided...
Category: Inaugurations
News
Landmark ruling - is it a ship?The personal watercraft (PWC), often known by the trade name of jetski, is an increasingly popular mode of water transport. Partly resembling a motorbike, a PWC is ridden in a similar way and comes with the...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ITS the December Number of this Journa it was stated that several additional Life boat Stations had been formed, and new boats built to replace old ones.
In addition to those previously enume- rated, we have the...
Category: Articles
S.S. Empire Dorritt, of Glasgow
MAY 11TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 5.5 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that the S.S. Empire Dorritt, of Glasgow, had run aground on Barnard Sands. A light north-easterly breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea....
Timothy's toughest plot
At sea, things don’t always go according to script – which is what led Timothy and Shane Spall to head offshore
‘If I get better, we will get a boat,’ declared Timothy Spall. It was 1996. A...
Category: Articles
Other IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on fages 88, 91, 93, the following launches on service were made during the months December, 1967, to February, 1968, inclusive: Abersoch,...
Category: Services