LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boats and Helicopters
THE committee of Management of the Royal National Life-boat Institution began to give serious consideration to the use of helicopters for rescuing life at sea in 1948, when trials and demon- strations were carried out. Consider- able...
Category: Articles
Tennent Caledonian Girl June Lake Dr Robert Gray Coxswain Ian Johnson
Tfnnent Caledonian Girl June Lake, Dr Robert G'rav, Coxswain Ian Johnson and Mr Ken Mills, director of Tennent Caledonian at the cheaue presentation during October s ceremony.
photograph by courtesy of James P... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Functional Clothing Ltd
THE BEST WEATHER CLOTHING IN THE WORLD AIRFLOW COAT JACKET & LIGHTWEIGHT JACKETS ARE WATEPPPOOF & FREE COMOerNJBATIOlM FROrV ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION letter of 28 February 1974 from Assistant Superintendent (Stores) •...
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The Mersey Class Marine Engineer at the Press Photocell Before the Meetings With the Six Medallists Aboard.
The Mersey class Marine Engineer at the press photocell before the meetings with the six medallists aboard. Photo Maggie Murray/Format. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Greek Ship Aground In Hurricane
AT 9.25 on 25th October, 1967, Valentia radio informed the assistant honorary secretary of the Galway Bay life-boat station that the Greek motor vessel Razani was aground three quarters of a mile east south east of Black Head, Galway Bay....
Category: Services
Boy's Own
DECEMBER 16TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. The motor life-boat Elizabeth and Albina Whitley was launched at 11.45 A.M. in a heavy S.S.E. gale, with a rough sea, to the help of the local motor fishing coble Boy's Own. She found her six...
Right: a Memorial to the Disaster Erected at St.Annes In 1888
Right: a memorial to the disaster erected at St Annes in 1888. - View image in PDF
photograph (r) by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
100 Years Ago
THE present year (1861) came in on our English north-eastern coast in storm and fury. For the two last days of the dying year a tempest had been brewing; and on New-Year's Day, when we quiet city folks were exchanging "com- pliments...
Category: Articles
La Francoise (1)
French trawlermen saved IN THE WAKE OF the hurricane which swept across South East England in the early hours of October 16, 1987, many of the boats berthed at Newhaven Harbour—ripped from their moorings in the 90-knot winds—had been blown...
Excellent and Catherine
Clovelly, Devon.—On the morning of the 7th of July, 1952, a trawler was seen dragging her anchor until she passed from view, and the Hartland Point coastguard then kept her under observation. As her rate of drag increased and there was no...