LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Prime Minister on the Life-Boat Service
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 156 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to September 30th, 1949 - 76,606 The Prime Minister on the Life-Boat Service4 I HAVE the...
Category: Meetings
The First of the 21-Foot Atlantic Class of Inshore Life-Boats to Take Up Operational Duties Is Now Stationed at Hartlepool She Is Normally Manned By a Crew of Three
The First Of The 21-Foot Atlantic Class Of Inshore Life-Boats To Take Up Operational Duties Is Now Stationed At Hartlepool She Is Normally Manned By A Crew Of Three. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aircraft
Dover, Kent. At 10.55 on the morning of the 27th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an aircraft had crashed into the sea near the Varne lightvessel and that the pilot had been picked up by the lightvessel's...
An Inflatable Dinghy
Capsized inflatable THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Porthdinllaen lifeboat station was informed by HM Coastguard at 1522 on Saturday April 25, 1981, that an inflatable dinghy had capsized in Porthdinllaen Bay, throwing two people into the water....
The Fundraisers
Steeley determination! A donation of £25,000 was recently presented to John Clugston, chairman of the South Bank Committee Humber lifeboat appeal by Stuart Pettifor, managing director of British Steel (Sections, Plates and Commercial...
Category: Articles
An Inflatable dinghy
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 2.45 on the morning of the 7th of January, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Black- pool life-boat was searching for three youths who had drifted out to sea in an...
The Problem of Designing Life-Boats. Self-Righting Life-Boats Or Life-Boats Which Cannot Self-Right
By Commander T. G. Michelmore, R.D., R.N.R.
Chief Inspector of Life-boats WHENEVER a life-boat of the type which cannot right herself is capsized the same questions are asked. "Why cannot all life-boats right...
Category: Articles
Vives
SICK RADIO OPERATOR BROUGHT ASHORE Holyhead, Anglesey. At 4.3 on the afternoon of the 10th June, 1963, Holyhead coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Vives of London was near the breakwater end and needed help. The...
Book Reviews
• A welcome addition to the yachtsman's library of pilotage is the new book Channel Islands Pilot by Malcolm Robson (Nautical Publishing, £7.50) which contains the following appreciation by Major-General R. H. Farrant, CB, Chairman...
Category: Articles
An R.A.F. Anson Trainer Aeroplane
AUGUST 9TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An R.A.F. Anson trainer aeroplane had come down off Llandwrog, but the life-boat could find nothing.- Rewards, £10 4s. 6d.