LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Book Reviews
Anyone interested in the organization of a major charity will find Two Ears of Corn by Mervyn Jones (Hodder and Stoughton, 2i/-) a stimulating work.
This is the story of the growth of Oxfam from an inaugural meeting held by...
Category: Articles
A Gannet Aircraft
Coverack, The Lizard, Falmouth and Cadgwith, Cornwall.—At 8.38 oil the evening of the 19th of February, 1957, the Royal Naval Air Station at Cul- drose reported that a Gannet aircraft, with a crew of three, was believed to have crashed into...
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The PARSONS 'PORBEAGLE' is a 4-cylinder water-cooled...
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Parsons Engineering Co. Ltd
FIT FOR A "QUEEN'S" LIFEBOA Tana the R.N.L.I.
R.N.L.I. 41ft. Watson type lifeboat with two Parsons 'Porbeagles' installed.
The PARSONS 'PORBEAGLE' is a 4-cylinder water-cooled...
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The Ex-Naval Cutter Overdraft II (1)
Anchor dragged A RADIO MESSAGE from the charter boat Aqua-Manda, that the ex-naval cutter Overdraft II had run out of fuel and dragged her anchor and was drifting with two people on board, was reported to the honorary secretary of Clactonon-...
A Royal engagement
Lifeboat naming ceremonies are always significant occasions, but few have attracted as much attention as the one that took place at Trearddur Bay Lifeboat Station, Anglesey, in February.
The world’s media mingled with over...
Category: Articles
Launches
Lifeboat and hovercraft launches remainder of March-June 2006 Listings ABERDEEN ON-1248(17-24):May 5,12 ON-1262(17-33):Jun 13 D-536:Apr 20,May 7(x2),Jun 13 ABERDOVEY B-758:Apr 21,May 1,Jun 10,11(x2),13 ABERSOCH B-790:Apr 13,20,27,28, May...
Category: Services
Naming Ceremonies
Six new life-boats were named in 1955.
Four are in Scotland at Stornoway, Stronsay, Stromness, and Troon; two are in England at Southend-on-Sea and Fowey. An account of the Southend naming ceremony appeared in the September...
Category: Inaugurations
Surfboards
An 11-year-old girl and her father were surfing on holiday in North Cornwall when the high tide swept them away. It was early evening on 10 August when a horrified mother watched her daughter and husband drifting further and further away...
A Boat
Disaster averted at Whitby When two lifeboatmen at Whitby station spotted a small boat heading seawards one afternoon in January 2003, they knew the crew of three were putting their lives at riskHelmsman John Pearson and Mechanic Glenn...