LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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At 3.20 p.m. on 28th October, 1966, the local doctor requested the services of the life-boat for a patient on Inishere Island who needed hospital treatment.
The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompsonleft her moorings at 3.45. The...
Made to Measure:
Made to measure: it took Brian Dew (above) six months to build this 1112th scale working model of Padstow's new 47ft Tyne class lifeboat. The model is built of wood andfibreglass, has twin electric motors for propulsion and for operating... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
View of the Past:
View of the past: 'Hurry to the Rescue', a watercolour by George Owen dated 1893 and just one of the hundreds of exhibits at Sotheby's maritime exhibition Rule Britannia which runs from January 2 to 29, 1986 (closed January 6).... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
AT the annual meeting of the Committee of this Fund, held on the 17th of January, and presided over by Mr. "W. H. HAINES, Chief Clerk of the House of Lords, Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the Honorary Secretary, reported that the number of...
Category: Meetings
Lizzie
HARTLEPOOL.—On the evening of the 15th February, during an E.N.E. wind, a high sea, and heavy rain, the ketch Lizzie, of and from Yarmouth for Sunderland •with a cargo of flour and iron, in making for Hartlepool for shelter, struck on the...
Summary of Year's Work
Launches of Life-boats.
Total number of launches, including those in which for various reasons no services were rendered - - - - - - - - 411 Of these launches 249 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by...
Category: Annual Reports
New Member of Committee of Management
REAR-ADMIRAL R. St. V. Sherbrooke, V.C., C.B., D.S.O., has been co-opted to the Committee of Management.
Rear-Admiral Sherbrooke, who lives in Newark, Notts., joined the Royal Navy in 1913 and was awarded the Victoria Cross...
Category: Committee
Portrait of a Coxswain
Coxswain Daniel Kirkpatrick, of the Longhope, Orkneys, life-boat T.G.B., who was lost with his crew on the night of 18th March, 1969, while on service (see page 594). He was awarded his first silver medal in 1959for saving 14 from the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
400 Hours' Labour
A MODEL of the 51-feet Barnett Strom- ness motor life-boat George Shee, which is stationed at Torbay, has been made by Mr. Charles Young of Dartmouth, and his staff, and by Alderman F.
Scardifield, also of Dartmouth. It...
Category: Articles
Staronia
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire - At 1.42 a.m. on 2nd August, 1966, a vessel was reported ashore off Cairnbulg point.
There was a slight sea. It was high water.
The life-boat The Duchess of Kent proceeded at...