LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fig 3: Buoyancy Air Cases Each Shaped to Fit and Marked With Its Position Are Taken Out When Opening Up the Hull for Examination at Partial and Complete Survey
Fig.4:.. . and stowed on one side. Edian Courtauld, her decks stripped for action, was at Cardnell Brothers for partial survey. Her new air bag has already been fitted to her after cabin top.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
"Withhold Not Thine Hand."
BOGGED and rough the rocks of Albion's coast Stretch forth into the billows reef on reef, And many gallant vessels, tempest tost, There yearly come to grief.
Still, week by week the weary winter through, Braving the...
Category: Poetry
Just Having a Ball.
The Martin Jones jazz band played on board the lifeboat Robert and Dorothy Hardcastte to greet guests arriving at the Mayday Ball organised by Hull ladies lifeboat guild.
Over 250 guests enjoyed an excellent three-course... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Man in the Run HEARING FROM the Coastguard, at 1546 on November 9, 1974, that a 999 call had reported that a man had fallen into the Run at Mudeford, both Michael Parker and his wife Sally, the station administrative officer, ran out of...
Perserverance
The Life-boat Civil Service No. 1 was launched at about 4 A.M. on the 13th February in a N.N.W.
gale and heavy sea in answer to signals of distress from a vessel on the Walpole Rock. The schooner Perseverance, of Fowey, was...
Amy
Shortly after midnight on the 4th-oth July, flares were observed by the Coastguard on duty at Westward Ho ! He at once communicated by telephone with Apple- dore, and the No. 1 Life-boat Jane Hannah Macdonald was sent to the place...
Fishing Boats (1)
Seven of the fishing-boats belonging to Holy Island were at sea fishing on the 22nd January when the S.E. wind in- creased to a gale, and the sea became very heavy. At 8.30 A.M. the Life-boat Grace Darling was launched, manned by a scratch...
H.M.S. Birnbeck
MARCH 27TH. - WESTON-SUPER-MARE, SOMERSET. At 8.15 P.M. it was learned from the officer commanding H.M.S. Birnbeck, that the motor vessel with a crew of four was ashore off Howe Rock, in Berrow Bay, and would foul the coast defences if she...
Julian Paul
Ten hour service to disabled fishing vessel in gale force winds The coxswains of both the Penlee and Sennen Cove lifeboats, Neil Brockman and Terry George, have been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal following a joint service to a...
Bookshelf
Lifeboat station histories The History of the Penmon and Beaumaris Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author The northern end of the Menai Straits is one of the areas where changing times and use of the sea has led to considerable...
Category: Articles