LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ceremonies
Berwick - Mersey class Joy and Charles Beeby Berwick might be in England - just - but when the day dawned for the town's new Mersey class lifeboat to be named, on 23 March 1993, it was as braw a morning as any in Scotland. The...
Category: Inaugurations
Lifeboat Services
ON THURSDAY April 8, the honorary secretary of St Ives lifeboat station was down at the boathouse in the late afternoon when, at 1628, he saw a 16ft sailing dinghy leave harbour with two young men and two youths on...
Category: Services
Notes of the Quarter
'A YEAR of intense activity and gratifying success for the lifeboat service" is the phrase used in the RNLI's report to describe the happenings in 1972. The facts certainly justify this. The total number of lives saved, which is...
Category: Articles
A New Experimental Life-Boat With a Glass-Reinforced Plastic Hull and Deck— She Is 40-Foot Long-Was on 15Th January 1969 on View Tothe Press at Newhaven Sussex Her
A new experimental life-boat with a glass-reinforced plastic hull and deck— she is 40-foot long-was on 15th January, 1969, on view tothe press at Newhaven, Sussex. Here the boat, which has a maximum speed of 19 knots and cruising speed of 17... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Health & Home Shopping,
TWO 95 d Verdigris effect j 5ath STab Encourage the wild birds into your garden all year round with this delightful Verdigris effect Bird Bath & Table.
Constructed in UY Stabilised polyresin, it h.is ,ill the looks ot...
Category: Advertisement
(Above) Chile: Valparaiso Lifeboat Is An EX-Rnli 14M Watson
(Above) Chile: Valparaiso lifeboat is an e.x-RNLI 14m Watson.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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
A Steamer (25)
APRIL 23RD. - RAMSGATE, WALMER, AND MARGATE, KENT. A steamer had been mined and had sunk off the North Foreland, but her crew were taken off by naval vessels. - Rewards : Ramsgate, £5 3s. ; Walmer £14 12s. 6d. ; Margate, £9 8s...
Blizzard
When snow and ice accompany storm force winds endurance of a high order is asked of lifeboat crews; an active endurance which will enable them to maintain efficiency and bring a service to a successful conclusion even after many hours at sea...
Category: Services
Joint Second Coxswain William Clark - Bronze Medal
Joint Second Coxswain William Clark - Bronze Medal Lerwick lifeboat, 17/18 November 1993 William Clark took Lerwick's Arun class lifeboat Soldian alongside the Russian Factory Ship Borodinskoye Polye 35 times to rescue 37... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs