LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Teesmouth Life-Boat Named
LADY CRATHORNE named the new Teesmouth life-boat Sarah Jane and James Season at a ceremony at the life-boat house on the 28th of May, 1960. The life-boat, which is one of the 47-feet Watson type, was pro- vided out of legacies from the late...
Category: Inaugurations
Taking to the Road: (Below Left) Dennis Oates Appeal Secretary of East Ham Branch Has Painted a Lifeboat Scene on His Dodge Van Which He Uses for All Branch Fun
Taking to the road: (Below, left) Dennis Oates, appeal secretary of East Ham branch, has painted a lifeboat scene on his Dodge van, which he uses for all branch functions. (Below, right) Jeffery Dyson, a signaller in Rhyl crew (r), with the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Morecambe August 10 1986:
Morecambe, August 10, 1986: Morecambe was one of the three stations at which the prototype Evans/Avon D class inflatable lifeboat had been on trial. The station's new lifeboat, funded by the bequest of Mr and Mrs William Herring in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Launch of an Oil Rig, Sovereign Explorer
Severely injured NEW BRIGHTON'S Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat, Blenwatch, manned by Helmsman Clifford Downing and Crew Members Francis Brereton and F.
Jones, had launched at 1100 on Tuesday December 6, 1983, and...
Obituaries
Sir Peter Compston With deep regret we report the recent death of former RNLI Deputy Chairman, Vice Admiral Sir Peter Compston KCB.
Sir Peter had a long and distinguished career in the Royal Navy, including numerous...
Category: Obituaries
The Norwegian Navy Boats Aksel and Arthur
AUGUST 15TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 6.37 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard at Kinnaird Head that a small motor boat was ashore three-quarters of a mile south of Inzie Head, and that another boat was standing by and...
Your Letters
Thanks to Alderney...
The RNLI has always been our favourite charity. During a Channel crossing on 19 June in our 29ft yacht we had good reason to be grateful for the support we and countless others have given the...
Category: Correspondence
Two Scottish Inaugural Ceremonies. Campbeltown (Argyllshire); Troon (Ayrshire)
Campbeltown (Argyllshire) ; Troon (Ayrshire).
DURING September tte Inaugural Cere- monies took place of two new Motor Life-boats on tte West Coast of Scot- land, at Campbeltown, Argyllstire, and Troon,...
Category: Inaugurations
Lady Penrhyn
PORT ERROLL, ABERDEENSHIRE.—At about 7 o'clock on the morning of the 29th July a dense fog, which had prevailed about eight hours, lifted and disclosed a vessel close in shore at Whinnyfold, South of Crnden Scars, and apparently on the...
Richard
PEEL, ISLE OF MAN.—The schooner Richard, of Buncorn, coal laden, from Whitehaven for Killough, with a crew of three men, was seen running for the harbour during a strong gale from the N.W. and a heavy sea on the morning of the 16th October....