LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Use for Old Ropes
THE ex-second coxswain at Padstow, though no longer able to go to sea, still helps the station by making mats out of its old ropes, a craft which he learnt while serving at sea. An active member of the crew also makes them. They are sold...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SIDMOUTH, DEVON. — This Life-boat Station has been provided with a new 34 feet 10-oared Life-boat, possessing all the latest improvements and furnished with a transporting carriage. The expense of the change was met by a gift of...
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Ennal's Point
Ray Kipling, public relations officer RNLI, has been talking to Alun Richards, the Welsh novelist and play write who has adapted his lifeboat-based novel 'Ennal's Point' into a six-part television drama series which will be shown...
Category: Articles
River Lossie
Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 8.3 on the evening of the 27th of March, 1953, I the coastguard rang up to say that the | steam trawler River Lossie, of Aber- deen, with a crew of nine, had run on a submerged rock on Robbie Ramsay's Baa outside...
A Fishing Boat
EXMOUTH, DEVON.—A fishing boat which had proceeded to sea in favourable weather early in the morning of the 24th March, was overtaken by a strong gale from S.S.W., and as the sea became very heavy accompanied by a very thick rain,...
Armistice Day: The Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Motor Life-Boat Going Out to Sea With the Wreath
Armistice Day: The Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Motor Life-Boat Going Out To Sea With The Wreath. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Five Medallists at Festival Pier for a 'Photocell' Aboard the New Trent Class Prototype. Photo Maggie Murray/Format
The five medallists at Festival Pier for a 'photocell' aboard the new Trent class prototype. Photo Maggie Murray/Format. - View image in PDF
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(Above and Below) When Uninflated, the New Jacket Is Extremely Compact and Doesn't Impede the Wearer's Movements
(Above and Below) When Uninflated, The New Jacket Is Extremely Compact and Doesn'T Impede The Wearer's Movements. - View image in PDF
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Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
A Dinghy
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...