LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Asse and an Aeroplane (1)
OCT. 17TH. - AMBLE, AND BOULMER, NORTHUMBERLAND. A steamer had been reported in distress. Her position was given as nine miles S.E. of Coquet Island, and the Amble motor life-boat was launched.
A warning of an air-raid had...
Honor
During very thick weather on the 3rd October the steam drifter Honor, which was being employed as a mine-sweeper, ran on to the rocks and made signals for assistance. In response the Life-boat John Anthony was launched, and stood by the...
A Washington Aircraft
On the 26th of January, 1954, six life-boats, those from Barrow, Fleet- wood, Blackpool and Lytham-St.
Annes, Lancashire, and Douglas and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, searched unsuccessfully for the crew of a Washington...
Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE Coxswain Albert Bird (right) and Motor Mechanic Ian Jack of Aberdeen were awarded silver medals for gallantry (see page 11) for the rescue on April 13, 1974, of the crew of 12 from the trawler Netta Croan which was on fire and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Volume Numbers
The volume number for the March and June, 1968, issues of THE LIFE-BOAT should stay at Vol. XL and the pages, beginning with the March, 1968, number, should run from 313 to 360 and with the June, 1968, issue from 361 to 408. It is proposed...
Category: Articles
Top Drawer:
Top drawer: Mike Peyton has published another book of his famous cartoons casting humourous light on yachting predicaments. Out of Our Depth (Nautical Books, £5.95) will touch a few raw nerves as well as causing plenty of chuckles. Mike...
Category: Drawings
(Left, Top) Liam Checks the Cover
(Left, top) Liam checks the cover on one of the first Atlantics to come up for sale. (Left, lower) A clutch of Waveneys at the Depot quay. The outer boat.
44-0 / 7, was due to leave Tilbury for New Zealand in March where... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Oldest Collector?
The oldest collector? Mr Frank Gay, aged 102, is a keen supporter of the RNLI and has been collecting at his block of flats in Liss, Hampshire for the past 12 years. A master baker, he was still baking and icing cakes for friends and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Inverness Sub-Aqua Club
Inverness Sub-Aqua Club held a sponsored snorkel in the River Ness, starting from the Infirmary bridge and ending up at Friar's bridge. Clem Watson, area organiser for north Scotland, is pictured (centre) in the river just before... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Watkins F. Nisbet
DECEMBER 6TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. The S.S. Watkins F. Nisbet, of St. Catherines, Ontario, had gone ashore off Llanddwyn Island, but nine- teen of her crew of twenty were rescued from the shore by the Holyhead Company of the...