LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Blue Star, Avocette 2, Islay Mist, Lady Llamedos and Amie
Breezy conditions lead to six calls in one day for Plymouth's Arun Plymouth's Arun class lifeboat City of Plymouth was kept extremely busy on 9 August 1994 when she received no less than six calls - launching first at 0048 and...
(Above) the Unpainled Wheelhouse Module (Also In Frc) Is Craned Into Position on the Hull
(Above). The unpainled wheelhouse module (also in FRC) is craned into position on the hull.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Letters
Still going strong It may be of interest to some of your readers that the actual barometer featured on p. 312 of your Spring 1986 edition is still in good working order and situated in a glass panelled recess in a wall at the village of...
Category: Correspondence
A Fishing Calendar for 1949
ME. H. JENKINS, the Lowestoft photographer, whose photographs of lifeboats will be familiar to readers of The Life-boat (one of them will be found on page 212) has, for the eleventh year, produced a fishing fleet calendar. It has fourteen...
Category: Advertisement
Dora
Ramsgate, Kent.—At 2.12 in the afternoon of the 23rd of May, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a yacht, with two persons on board, had cap- sized off Dumpton Gap, and four min- utes later the motor life-boat Prudential left her...
Firms and Their Products
• Decca Radar Ltd., Decca House, Albert Embankment, London, S.E. 1, have been privileged to provide radar for the R.N.L.I, for eight years.
The Decca 202 series and Kelvin Hughes Type 17 were the first sets to meet all the...
Category: Articles
Portland
Are you sifting comfortably? Back pain has now officially reached epidemic proportions in the UK. Sixty percent of adults annually suffer problems, with thirty per cent becoming chronic sufferers. Our backs are vulnerable. Poor posture in...
Category: Advertisement
Index to the Life-Boat Stations of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
(The figures refer to the numbers of the Life-boats detailfd on pages 42-53.) Aberdovey, Merioneth, 163 Abereoch, Carnarvon, 167.
Aberystwith, Cardigan, 162 Dunbar, Scotland, 250.
Dundalk, Ireland,...
Category: Articles
U.S. Letter of Appreciation for Walmer Coxswain
(See page 246). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dive for Treasure:
Dive for treasure: Members of the Hoyland Sub-Aqua Club raised more than £400 bv taking to drv land for a sponsored bed push from Hoyland to Barnsley. But to be true to their sport they decided the best place to present the cheque would... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs