LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hermiston
The steamer Hermiston, of Glasgow, whilst bound from Antwerp to Shields in ballast, stranded on the north cheek of Robin Hood's Bay on the 19th May.
There was a dense fog at the time, with a light breeze and moderate...
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Dear Editor
I read the Winter 2008–9 account of the opening of Dart station with interest but some confusion.
The appeal was for £259,000 but a D class lifeboat costs £...
Category: Articles
Rescue By Borough Engineer and Clerk
About eleven o'clock on the morning of the 7th of September, 1957, Mr.
Harry Wilman, the borough engineer and surveyor of Colwyn Bay, learnt at his office that a boat was in distress in the bay. He arranged for a...
Category: Services
Neco Marine Ltd
Automatic Pilot To hold a set course in most conditions Repeater Compass For easy reading and optimum siting Electric Capstan Push-button control of 650 Ibs pull Anchor Windlass 1,600 Ibs pull from 12-220 volt D.C. supply Dinghy Hoists For...
Category: Advertisement
Dr. Joseph Soar, M.B.E., of St. David's
IN the New Year's Honours Dr. Joseph Soar, Mus. Doc., F.R.C.O., A.R.C.M., the organist of St. David's Cathedral, and for twenty-one years the honorary secretary of the life-boat station at St.
David's, was made...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Wimbledon.
On the 31st of October, 1956, the Sheringham, Norfolk, life-boat rescued eighteen survivors from the S.S. Wimbledon. For this service the silver medal for gallantry was awarded to Coxswain H. E. West and the bronze medal to Motor Mechanic E....
Vaila
Stronsay and Stromness, Orkneys.— At 8.36 on the evening of the 22nd of May, 1953, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up the Stronsay life-boat station to say that three men who had left Walls, Shetland, for Kirkwall in the thirty-feet motor boat...
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Stronsay and Stromness, Orkneys.— At 8.36 on the evening of the 22nd of May, 1953, the Kirkwall coastguard rang up the Stronsay life-boat station to say that three men who had left Walls, Shetland, for Kirkwall in the thirty-feet motor boat...
John and Naomi Beattie Under Sail During Her Historic Passage to Her Original Station at Aberystwyth
John and Naomi Beattie under sail during her historic passage to her original station at Aberystwyth. - View image in PDF
(Photo courtesey David Jenkins). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Canoes and Audrey
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. — At 10.40 on the morning of the 21st of July, 1957, the life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was launched to stand by during the Bristol Channel canoe race between Weston-super-Mare and Barry. In the early afternoon...