LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tranio
Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—On the 7th March, 1938, the owner of the steam trawler Tranio, of Milford, which had run on the rocks in Killeany Bay on Aran Island some days earlier, arrived at Casla Bay on the mainland, with his chief...
Lifeboats Live on In Oz
Lifeboats live on in Oz Ex-Arun lifeboat, Spirit of Tayside, was sold to the Royal Volunteer Coastal Patrol and placed on station at Port Stephens, New South Wales in September. This picture was taken as the boat was being lifted out of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The New Launching Tractor
By Captain Howard F. I. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life boats.
LAST year the Institution completed the first of a new type of tractor for launching Life-boats off flat beaches. It was built as the result of...
Category: Inaugurations
Sixteen Years After
GRATITUDE is not always short-lived.
This letter comes from Warwickshire : " Once again on behalf of myself and family I have pleasure in sending you a cheque value £l 7s. 6d. as a small donation towards the fund...
Category: Correspondence
Classified Advertisements
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Category: Advertisement
Above and beyond
The RNLI’s new Chairman, Admiral The Lord Boyce, is well aware of the sea’s dangers, as he explains to Rory Stamp
Like many of the RNLI’s senior figures, Mike Boyce has inspected several lifeboats at close quarters....
Category: Articles
The Bravest Deeds of 1951
THE Maud Smith reward, in memory of John, Seventh Earl of Hardwicke, for the bravest act of life-saving of the year by a life-boatman was awarded to Alfred R. Wilson, of Margate, for going on board the yacht Girlanda in the darkness of the...
Category: Awards
Nelly Fleming
On the afternoon of the 8th January, the Avonmouth haven master telephoned that a ship had gone aground on the Welsh Hook, seven cables N.W. by W.
of the Welsh Hook Buoy, and was lying in a dangerous position. A fresh...
Hunting for Divers
MUDEFORD inshore rescue boat and a R.A.F. helicopter were called out on I9th July to search for two aqualung divers who had failed to surface after diving between the Groyne, Hengistbury Head, and Christchurch Ledge buoy. The divers were...
Category: Services
Woodstown and the S.S. Clapham
Nov. 15TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 11.45 A.M. the small coasting vessel Woodstown was sunk by enemy action threequarters of a mile N.E. of the Spit Buoy. A fresh S.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. At 11.50 A.M., the motor life-boat The...