LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

ON SATURDAY May 7 a damp, overcast morning overshadowed the preparations at Oban for the naming ceremony of the first 33ft Brede lifeboat to go on station. As the time of the ceremony drew nearer, however, the weather improved and a warm,...

CAHORE, Co. WEXFORD.—A messenger arrived at this Life-boat Station from Morris Castle, distant about three Irish miles south, on the evening of the 17th May, and reported that a vessel was stranded on the Blackwater Bank. The Life-boat John...

On the closing of the Blackrock life-boat station the following awards were made : DANIEL SMITH, 1 year coxswain and 10J years second coxswain, a coxswain's certifi- cate of service, and a pension.

JAMES STANLEY, 1 year...

IN 1947 life-boats went out to the help of vessels in distress 587 times and rescued 427 lives. • There were fewer launches, and fewer lives rescued, than in 1946, but these two years are together the busiest that the Lifeboat Service has...

Search for divers THE SUPPORT BOAT of a party of divers contacted the coastguard at 1355 on the afternoon of Sunday September 15, 1985, to say that two of their divers had not surfaced from their diving on the wreck of ss Teddington, about...

(Right) A Tyne hull, which is built upside down until the plating is complete, is turned over ready for decking in Fairey's yard, East Cowes. - View image in PDF

photographs by courtesy of David Hillmer. - View image in PDF

Whitby Scarborough East Division TWO LIFEBOATS STAND BY IN SEVERE CONDITIONS Lifeboatman overboard during long service to stricken coaster Members of the Scarborough lifeboat crew hauled their own Second Coxswain, John Trotter, to safety...

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