LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy (7)
Penlee, Cornwall - At 6 p.m. on 22nd July, 1967, a report was received that a dinghy had capsized between Newlyn and Penzance. A man was seen clinging to her. The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched at 6.14 in a strong north easterly...
Golden Charter
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Category: Advertisement
Fortuna, of Gothenburg
On the 10th Sept.
the Life-boat Commercial -Traveller, No. 1, during a heavy gale at S.W., and after- wards at N.W., rendered such important assistance to the barque Forttma, of Goth- enberg, as enabled that vessel, then...
Fishing Cobles (1)
CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. — Thirteen fishing-coble? were endeavour-ing to return home while a heavy sea was breaking on the bar on the 8th April.
As they would incur considerable risk in crossing, the Life-boat...
Theda
FLEETWOOD.—The schooner Theda, of Carnarvon, bound from Hamburg for Glasson Dock, stranded on the North edge of Sundeiland Bank during hazy weather on the 17th November, and at 11.45 A.M. showed signals of distress.
The...
Fishing Cobles
Filey, Yorkshire.—Early on the morning of the 12th November, 1937, nine fishing cobles put to sea. At 8.55 A.M.
a squally N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a rough sea. The pulling and sailing life-boat Thomas Masterman Hardy...
(Right) One of 20 Lifeboat Models Made By Jeff Morris and Used In a Number of Displays and Fund-Raising Events In the Coventry Area on Sunday January 30 the Mo
(Right) One of 20 lifeboat models made by Jeff Morris and used in a number of displays and fund-raising events in the Coventry area.
On Sunday, January 30, the models farmed the focal point of a lifeboat service at Radford... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A R.A.F. Aeroplane (2)
OC T . 2 3 RD. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
The life-boat station was informed that a R.A.F. aeroplane had failed to report and had last been seen thirty miles east of Wick. The motor life-boat was launched at 3.20 P.M. Two...
Prepare for the Worst
LAST YEAR'S capsize of the roll-on roll-off ferry Herald of Free Enterprise close to Zeebrugge Harbour entrance, brought sharply into focus the need for emergency services on land and at sea to be alert and ready to cope with the myriad...
Category: Articles
Vision of the future?
Predicting future technology is rarely an exact science. But we couldn't resist a peek into the world of 2074 – and what a lifeboat of the future might look like …
‘How, sir, would you make...
Category: Articles