LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
August (1)
AUGUST MEETING LANNERCOMBE, SALCOMBE, DEVON. About 7.30 in the evening of the 9th July, 1940, the Latvian steamer Talvaldis was attacked by enemy aeroplanes off Start Point. The weather was moderate. The Salcombe motor life-boat was called...
Category: Services
Artistry In Cornwall And Whitby
Cornish originals on eBay Cornish artist Glyn Macey is auctioning 120 of his works on eBay for the RNLI. Glyn has put a painting up for sale every weekday since the start of October, with a bidding period of one week...
Category: Articles
December
Launches 54 Lives rescued 76
DECEMBER 4TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At five in the morning the local motor fishing vessels Pilot Me and Gem put to sea in bad weather. During the morning the weather worsened...
Category: Services
The 44-Foot Steel Life-Boat Khami, Which Is Stationed at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston,
The 44-foot steel life-boat Khami, which is stationed at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, going out on exercise on 9th November, 1969, in a force 8 gale from the south east and a strong ebb tide.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Beneath wind and wave
Sport diver and RNLI supporter Brian Minehane gets bitten by the maritime archaeology bug thanks to a sunken antique lifeboat …
I am an Irishman from Dublin, born in Kent, England, and who now...
Category: Articles
Lady Ann
At 5 A.M. on the 6th December the Coastguard reported that a steamer was making flares for assistance to the north of the Light- house. The crew of the Life-boat were immediately assembled and the boat launched. The steamer proved to be the...
Review
review by John francis, lifeboat Enthusiasts’ Society Honorary Secretary
I have had the privilege of evaluating the DVD version of this archive of 580 issues ofthe Lifeboat and found it very easy to use. There are...
Category: Articles
Cover Picture
British Petroleum and Bristow Helicopters are combining to provide an airborne search and rescue service based on BP Forties Field but available to other oil companies with North Sea operations and indeed to any ship in distress within 100... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Income and Expenditure—1st Jan. To 31st Dec., 1953
1952 £ s. d, 226,765 8 4 229 10 2 29,963 7 7 10,020 - - 126 18 9 36,986 4 6 12,043 - 11 1,638 - - 2,836 16 1 320,609 603 280 1,867 911 150 3,813 11,978 24,357 39 36,375 38,105 7,130 41,665 987 759 50.543 6 10 9 4 7 18 10 10 14 5 19 12...
Category: Accounts
St. Petroc
PADSTOW.—-On the 13th Jan. 1894, the Life-boat Arab rendered assistance to the ketch St. Petroc, of Padstow. The master of the vessel was in need of the services of more men or of a tug, but only a small tug was available and it was...