LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Fishing Coble Jean and Barbara
NOVEMBER 7TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
In the early afternoon a strong north-westerly wind was blowing, with a heavy sea. The motor fishing coble Jean and Barbara was at sea, and at two o’clock the motor life-boat The Cuttle was...
A Skilful Rescue In Unknown Waters
AT 12.45 on the afternoon of the 17th of September, 1952 the coastguard telephoned the life-boat station at Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides that the crew of a local motor boat, the Mayflower, were marooned on rocks.
The...
Category: Services
New Life-Boat for Fraserburgh
A VERY interesting ceremony took place at Fraserburgh on the 4th August, when the new Motor Life-boat, the Lady Rothes, presented to the Institution by Mr. T. Dyer Edwardes, was named and launched in the presence of some thousands of...
Category: Inaugurations
Clifford James
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Category: Advertisement
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BUDEHAVEN.—A new life-boat, on Mr PEAKE'S design, has been stationed at Budehaven on the north coast of Cornwall by the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck. Her dimensions are, length 27 ft., beam...
Category: Articles
Henry 'Shrimp' Davies (1)
Henry 'Shrimp' Davies Former Cromer coxswain (see right) deaths Henry 'Shrimp' Davies Henry Davies was given the nickname 'Shrimp' after his famous uncle, coxswain Henry Blogg, saw him as a tiny...
Category: Obituaries
Atlantic 21 Rigid Inflatables Are Built at Cowes Base and Also Undergo Survey Maintenance and Repair In the Base's Workshop
Atlantic 21 rigid inflatables are built at Cowes Base and also undergo survey, maintenance and repair in the base's workshop. (Photo Bob Kennovin). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Leonidas
THE INCIDENTS which led to the launching of Angle lifeboat, the 46' 9" Watson Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth oj Leeds, on Monday, December 6, 1976, built up over several days.
On Saturday, December 4, the Greek...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS
PATRONESS HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN
VICE PATRONESS —...
Category: Advertisement
People and Places
Around and about the RNLI A swarm of Flying Bs The names of the prize winners in the 49th national lottery were pulled from the drum at the Poole headquarters on 30 April by members of the Bentley Drivers' Club.
The...
Category: Articles