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• A new, updated version of Gillian Howie and Gillian Zealand's history of Arbroath's lifeboats May 1982 has been compiled by Alasdair M. Sutherland, himself a crew member. With the aid of photographic illustrations Arbroath Lifeboat...
Category: Articles
G. K. C.
The steamer G.K.C., of Noirmontiers, stranded on the Doom Bar on the 4th May. The schooner was first observed making for the harbour at 8.45 A.M., and, after rounding Stepper Point, she struck the Bar. The No. 1 Life-boat Arab was promptly...
Lifeboat Transporting Carriage. (With Tipping's Wheelplates.)
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
Category: Articles
Minehead:
Minehead: A new D class inflatable lifeboat, provided from funds raised by beaconsjield Round Table in memory of Keith R. Drysdale, was handed over to the RNLI on Saturday September 17.
1983, b Beaconsfield chairman, Mr... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
LIFE-BOAT QUIZ
Compiled by Grahame Farr with the help of members of the Life-boat Enthusiasts' Society 1—Which life-boat station is farthest from the shore? 2—Where are old life-boat houses now used as (a) a library, and (b] an aquarium? 3—Which...
Category: Articles
J.T. & S.
Torbay, Devon. At 9.29 on the even- ing of the 29th of April, 1960. the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that a ship was on fire off the mouth of the River Dart. At 9.55 the life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent left her moorings...
A Motor Boat
Portrush, Co. Antrim. At 8.12 on the evening of the 6th October, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a sixteen-feet outboard motor boat with an amateur frogman on board was overdue. The frogman had left Port Bradden...
Rescue In Ribble Estuary
THE THANKS of the Institution inscribed on vellum have been accorded to Coxswain Harold Parkinson and Mr. Kenneth Smith, of Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire, for a shore boat service in which they saved a yacht and two...
Category: Services
The James and Catherine MacFarlane, a 36-Foot Oakley Reserve Life-Boat, Was on Display at Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, in July, 1966, While on its Way to the Royal Show
The James and Catherine MacFarlane, a 36-foot Oakley reserve life-boat, was on display at Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, in July, 1966, while on its way to the Royal Show.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Below Right: The Yarmouth All-Weather Lifeboat On Exercise With A Coastguard SAR Helicopter
Below right:The Yarmouth all-weather lifeboat on exercise with a Coastguard SAR helicopter. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs