LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailboard
Once a lifeboatman, always a lif eboatman - or that was the case at Barrow on 19 March 1992 when the Barrow lifeboat mechanic Bryan Jackson enlisted the aid of ex-lifeboatman Ernest Diamond to rescue a windsurfer in a half-hour...
A Trawler (2)
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—10th January. A trawler had run ashore ten miles west of Mumbles Head, but her crew of eleven were rescued from the shore by the coastguard life-saving apparatus, with the exception of one man who was drowned....
The Scarweather Lightship
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—-On the afternoon of the 3rd of April, 1948, a message came from the Scarweather Lightship that a man had committed suicide on board, and as the Trinity House vessel was under repair, the life- boat, William...
Medal for the Year's Best Paper
THE Constantine medal of the Man- chester Association of Engineers has been awarded to Mr. R. A. Oakley, Sur- veyor of Life-boats, for the best paper to be presented to the Association dur- ing the session 1959-60. Mr. Oakley read a paper...
Category: Awards
Handing Over the Helm
Handing over the helm ~ Following the retirement of Skegness Coxswain/Mechanic Paul Martin, the new man at the helm is previous Second Coxswain John Irving (pictured left/.
Ray Chapman (right) who remains as senior helmsman... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Speed Boat (1)
AUG. 14TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET. At 9.5 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a small speed-boat was showing distress signals off the Anvil Point Lighthouse. The weather was fine and the sea was smooth. The motor life-boat Thomas...
A Small Motor Boat
OCTOBER 19TH. - MONTROSE, ANGUS.
A small motor boat, attached to the Air Ministry, with only one man on board, had got lost in a dense fog, but she was eventually picked up by a Gourdon fishing boat, thirteen miles from her...
45 Years -- Still Singing
Mr. J. W. Kelly, of Peel, in the Isle of Man, has now sung the solo in the hymn "The Life-boat" at the annual Life-boat Sunday Service at Peel every year for 45 years. Mr. Brian Leadley, who ha* been H.M. coastguard at Peel for 23...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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Body Plan. Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and...
Category: Articles
"Storm on the Waters"
Storm on the Waters - is the story of the Life-boat Service in the war of 1939-45. The full story cannot be told in the compass of a small book, but if Mr. Vince has had to omit much that we should like to see included, he has given us a...
Category: Articles