LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ghost Cabinets
THE Institution now has two ghost cabinets, to show the changes in the equipment of the Life-boat Service.
They are on the principle of the old "Peppers Ghost," and are worked by a penny in the slot. In each...
Category: Articles
Rask
Berwick - on - Tweed, Northumberland; and Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 7.35 in the morning on the 31st of January, 1950, the Berwick coastguard telephoned the Berwick life-boat authorities that a railway signalman had reported a vessel...
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THIS Society held its Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting at the City Terminus Hotel on the 10th May last. The chair was taken by His Grace the DUKE OF MABLBOROUGH, K.G., the President. Amongst those present were THOMAS BRASSEY, Esq., M.P.,...
Category: Meetings
A Canoe
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 8.21 P.M.
on the 17th July, 1939, a message was received from the coastguard that a canoe, with a boy on board, had capsized off Ness Point. A gentle S.W.
breeze was blowing, but the...
A faster lifeboat for London
The next generation of E class lifeboat can now be seen on the Thames. Hurley Burly is the first of three new E class lifeboats to be shared by Tower and Chiswick Lifeboat Stations. Two more are due to join our fleet in...
Category: Articles
PARAGLIDER CRASH
ABERYSTWYTH | 15 MAY
A paraglider, fearing that his flying partner had crashed into some cliffs, called 999. The crew of RNLI Aberystwyth's inshore rescue boat launched quickly, soon joined by the larger Atlantic 85 lifeboat....
Category: Articles
Annarchy
In storm force winds and darkness, the yacht Annarchy had engine problems and was steering an erratic course. The Moelfre crew had to manoeuvre the lifeboat close enough to the yacht for Rod Pace to jump aboard and regain control of the...
Cromarty Cash
Cromarty on the Black Isle in the Highlands of Scotland held its boat club regatta in July. The Cromarty and Resolis ladies guild set a up stall to tempt both locals and tourists to part with their money.
The guild raised... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Stranded children EDINBURGH CITY POLICE informed Queensferry ILB station at 1725 on Sunday February 4 that four children and their dog were stranded on Cramond Island. The children had tried to return to the mainland by the causeway but, cut...
An Offshore Platform
Marooned on platform THAMES COASTGUARD contacted Aideburgh lifeboat station's honorary secretary on the afternoon of Wednesday October 24, 1984 and requested a launch to 12 maintenance menmarooned on an offshore platform which forms part...