LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Parachute (2)
JULY 3RD. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
A parachute with something attached had been seen to fall into the sea, but the life-boat was recalled as it was thought certain that no person was attached to the parachute and that the...
Peggy, June and Ann, Barbara and Joan, and Joan and Mary
JANUARY 24TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
Four of the Filey motor fishing boats, Peggy, June and Ann, Barbara and Joan, and Joan and Mary, were out fishing. A strong wind got up from the S.E., with a heavy swell, and at 12.25 in...
An Aeroplane
JANUARY 3RD. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but it had crashed near Glasgow after the pilot had baled out.- Rewards £29 19s..
Mrs Cynthia Hall,
MARCH 1993 Mrs Cynthia Hall, president of Goodwin Sands and Downs ladies' guild and a founder member of the guild in 1952. Mrs Hall was awarded a Silver badge in 1974..
Category: Obituaries
Lizzie
Sunderland, Co. Durham.—Two boys put out from Sunderland in the small boat Lizzie on the night of the 19th September, but soon got into difficulties, and their boat drifted about all night.
Next day the second coxswain of...
In Addition to Receiving the Gold Badge for His Services to the Rnli In 1982 Dr Sydney Peace (R)
In addition to receiving the gold badge for his services to the RNLI in 1982, Dr Sydney Peace (r) was further honoured at a gathering of his friends and colleagues in Orkney by the presentation of a pipe tune composed for him by Pipe Major... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Royal Empire
NOV 13TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
Shortly after 11 A.M. the small fishing coble Royal Empire was expected to enter the harbour. The breeze from the S.W. was light but a ground swell was breaking at the harbour entrance. At...
A Fishing Boat
The Western Commercial Traveller life-boat at Cadgwith, Cornwall, was lent to the fishermen at their earnest request, and the men were thus enabled to put out and cave their large seine net, which had broken away from its fastenings during...
Mersey
Length 11.77m (38ft 7in) Beam 4m (13ft) Displacement Approx. 14 tons Speed 16 knots Range 140 n. miles Crew 6 Construction Aluminium or FRC. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The 100th Life-Boat
WHEN Messrs. J. Samuel White, the famous shipbuilders of Cowes, delivered the Aberdeen life-boat in June, 1951, they had completed their hundredth life-boat for the Institution.
Their life-boat work goes back over a hundred...
Category: Articles