LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Aberdovey: Long Life Iii
Aberdovey: Long Life III being returned to her boathouse after a demonstration launch on Monday May 28, the day of her official handing over and dedication. The Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat was paid for out of funds raised in the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Staff Coxswain Billy Dent Has Called In to Discuss Problem With Cdr Roe Short Telephone Call to the Department Concerned Soon Resolves the Query
Staff Coxswain Billy Dent has called in to discuss a problem with Cdr Roe. A short telephone call to the department concerned soon resolves the query.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Royal Charter and Our Maggie
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 24th January the motor fishing boat Royal Charter, of Grimsby, and the local motor fishing coble Our Maggie left Scarborough for the fishing grounds. By 1.15 P.M. a strong gale was blowing...
Loch Lomond
North Pier L.S.A., Torry L.S.A. and the Aberdeen life-boat.—At 10.33 on the morning of the 23rd of October, 1952, the Assistant Harbour Master reported that the steam trawler Loch Lomond, of Aberdeen, was in distress in the Navigation...
Classifieds
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Category: Advertisement
Providence
SCARBOROUGH.—On the 3rd August, during a S.E. gale, the fishing yawl Providence, of Lowestoft, went ashore in the bay at low water. In order to save the vessel from being destroyed, when the tide arose Jhe Life-boat Lady Leigh was launched,...
The Life-Boat
'Tw night! npou the Cornish coast lull load the breakers roar, And helplessly yon gallant barque Drifts on the dark lee shore ; And quickly now the signal gnns Boom high above the gale.
O many a dark-ey'd Cornish...
Category: Songs
Faster Stronger Better
In 2013, we’ll start replacing Mersey class lifeboats with the next generation of all-weather lifeboat – the Shannon class. At £1.5M a piece, why are we doing it?
The Mersey class lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
CARNSORE, Co. WEXFORD.—The 30-feet 6-oared Life-boat placed here some years since was found to be not powerful enough for service to vessels on the dangerous outlying rocks off this coast known as the "Tuskar," and the NATIONAL...
Category: Articles
Shoreline
IN THE PAST tWO JSSUCS of THE LIFEBOAT I have asked members of my staff to give you an insight into their work within the department and I think you will agree that this has caused a fair amount of interest. So in this issue I would like to...
Category: Articles