LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Walton and Frinton, Essex - At 4.45 p.m. on 9th January, 1967, information was received that the Trinity House vessel Precedor had reported that two men were flashing lights from the Rough Towers and appeared to require assistance. The...

PORTPATRICK, January 8, 1988: with her propeller fouled by her fishing gear, MFV Dumnonia was drifting on to a lee shore, four miles away in a force 8 gale and in darkness. Portpatrick's 48ft 6in Solent class lifeboat Douglas Carrie... - View image in PDF

Summer 2009 winners

1st prize: Peugeot 107 Urban 3-door hatchback, Mr D Lowman, London (pictured on his VIP visit to Tower lifeboat station)

2nd prize: 13-night cruise onboard Balmoral to the Canary...

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 10.2 on the night of the 28th of March, 1952, the Walton-on-the-Naze coast- guard telephoned a wireless message from the motor vessel Seniority, of London, that she had lost an anchor and was drifting towards...

from page 58 no doubt be true to say that this fourth period—say the last 20 to 25 years— has seen the greatest and most far reaching changes in the history of the RNLI.

These changes include the advent of the small...

SEPTEMBER 25TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An Anson aeroplane had been reported down, north of St. Patrick’s Causeway, but a search by the life-boats, aeroplanes, and an R.A.F. boat was without result. and...

The following 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 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat is...

THE motor life-boat stationed at Flam- borough last year was named on 28th August.

The Flamborough station was estab- lished in 1871 and has always had two life-boats, is of the light Liverpool type, 35 feet 6 inches by 10...