LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
ALTHOUGH the early part of the past summer was not quite as favourable as could have been wished for demonstrations held on behalf of the Life-boat | Saturday Fund, for the success of which so much depends on tine but not too warm weather,...
Category: Articles
A Rowing Boat
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.10 on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1954, the coastguard reported that two men in a rowing boat two miles east of the pier were waving a white rag on an oar. At 11.23 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Raring was...
Profiles
THE NAMES of famous lifeboatmen tend to stick to places along the coast. So, too, do the names of voluntary workers who over many years have left their mark on communities in the name of the lifeboat service. One of these is Mrs Kathleen...
Category: Articles
A Fishing Boat
Sea trials interrupted to rescue seriously ill fishermanThe RNL) knows how to get the maximum benefit from its contractors. DML Ltd, the Plymouth-based dockyard, are responsible for building and repairing some of the all-weather lifeboats....
Visitors from Abroad
A DANISH mission, headed by Mr. C.
C. F. Langseth, Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Danish Ministry of Defence, visited England from the 27th to the 30th of July to study British life-boats. The mission watched launches by...
Category: Articles
Olympic Hill
INJURED SEAMAN Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 9 a.m. on yth June, 1965, the honorary secretary learnt that a seaman on board the Liberian tanker Olympic Hill required medical attention.
There was a light east-south-easterly breeze...
The Lifeboat Support Centre Steel Skeleton Is Well Under Way
9 Lifeboat Support Centre steel skeleton is well under way. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Runa
Port Erin, and Peel, Isle of Man.—At 9.40 on the morning of the 21st of April, 1951, the Director of the Marine Bio- logical Station sent a message to the Port Erin life-boat authorities. Two life-boatmen had reported that the Station's...
Hazleside
SEPT. 24TH. - COURTMACSHERRY, CO.
CORK. A message had been received that a steamer was in distress, as a result of enemy action, about fifteen miles south of Fastnet Lighthouse. She was the steamer Hazleside, of...