LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pulling a Fast One?
Pulling a fast one? There is no truth whatsoever in the rumour that the RNLI trials team are looking for an alternative means of lifeboat propulsion and asked the Director to acheive 25 knots under oar! Brian Miles, right, is actually... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Terry Rogers of Blackpool Lifeboat Station,
Terry Rogers of Blackpool lifeboat station, with his wife and children, outside Buckingham Palace before attending a royal garden party on 25 July in the presence of The Queen.
Terry was amongst a group of 41 lifeboatmen.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Obituary: Sir Terence H. Langrishe, Bt,
Lifeboat People It is with deep regret that we announce the death on December 31 of Sir Terence H. Langrishe, Bt, who served on the Committee of Management from 1952 to 1967; also the death on November 28, 1973, of Captain R. Muir, coxswain...
Category: Obituaries
Mary Lloyd and Elizabeth
FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.—While a strong gale was blowing from N. accompanied by a heavy sea, thick weather, rain and hail, on the evening of the llth April, the three-masted schooner Mary Lloyd, of Carnarvon, laden with slates, from...
Thrive
A t about noon on the 24th March a sudden squall sprang up in Fraserburgh Bay. This developed later into a N.W. gale with a heavy sea. Shortly after 1 P.M. the harbour-master tele- phoned that the Fraserburgh and Cairnbulg fishing fleets...
Inaugural Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats
Fowey (Cornwall), Weymouth (Dorset), Thurso (Caithness), and Stornoway (Island of Lewis) DURING September four new Motor Life-boats were formally inaugurated, those at Fowey, Weymouth, Thurso and Stornoway. Thus, with the South- end-on-Sea...
Category: Inaugurations
Anne
Coaster aground LATE ON THE NIGHT OF Saturday November 9, 1985, the Dutch coaster, Anne, radioed that she was dragging her anchor and getting close to Long Scar rocks near Hartlepool. There was a north-north-easterly strong gale force 9,...
IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRB's which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full elsewhere in THE LIFE-BOAT, the following launches on service were made during the months of April to August, 1965, inclusive: Aberdovey,...
Category: Services
Leverton
Some people take their pleasure seriously Boat owners who take pleasure seriously, take a very dim view of anything that interrupts their pursuit of happiness.
This simple fact is causing more skippers to choose CAT Marine...
Category: Advertisement
Caribia, of Delfzyl (1)
FEBRUARY 26TH - 27TH. - CAISTER, AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. About 2.45 in the morning the coastguard telephoned to Caister that the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat had just launched to a vessel on the east side of...