LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
IRB GIFT BY COMPANY
Every year the Abbey Life Assurance Co. Ltd. donates a certain sum of money to charity. About two years ago there was a mobile display by the R.N.L.I, outside St. Paul's Cathedral which was directly opposite Abbey Life...
Category: Donations
Sarah Ellen, of Liverpool
ABERYSTWYTH.—Just before dark on the 20th February, while it was blowing a hard gale from the N.W., the schooner Sarah Ellen, of Liverpool, bound from Plymouth to Belfast, was seen driving before the storm, with sails blown away, towards the...
Wendy
Hastings, Sussex.—At 12.28 in the afternoon of the 9th of May, 1948, the Fairlight coastguard reported that a yacht had capsized three miles off Glynde Gap, and the motor life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched at 12.43, in a moderate...
Rac
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During the same fierce gale, on 9th July, the Life-boat at Totland Bay was called out. Shortly after midnight the Brooke Station reported that its Boat was being launched, and at 1.35 another message was received that a vessel three or four...
Clarke Chapman & Co. Ltd
CLARKE CHAPMAN MARINE A U X I L I A R I E S FOR LIFE-BOAT STATIONS This illustrates one of our electrically driven winches as supplied to the Tynemouth Lifeboat Station for hauling up the life-boat.
Many other winches of...
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Feature: Extreme Search and Rescue
The seas off the north of Scotland and around Orkney and Shetland can be unforgiving and, in the worst of weathers, will catch out even the largest of ships. The safety of mariners and sea users in the area is overseen by the Maritime and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An American Fortress Aeroplane (3)
OCTOBER 17TH. - CROMER, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. Ten men had baled out from an American Fortress aeroplane, but no trace of them was found, although aeroplanes and other vessels joined in the search. - Rewards : Cromer, £9 3s. 6d. ; and...
Going for cold
Vancouver’s icy slopes are a long way from the Isle of Man but a world-class snowboarder won’t forget home when she competes at the Winter Olympics
Zoe Gillings is full of anticipation as she waits for the start gate to...
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AUGUST 1ST. - HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 4.14 P.M. the coastguard telephoned that the Longstone Lighthouse had been bombed by a German aeroplane and that the life-boat was required.
A fresh northerly...