LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Launches
ABERDEEN ON-1248(17-24):Dec 12,13,26, Feb 9,16,19,20 D-536:Dec 12,13,24,26(x2),Feb 20 ABERDOVEY B-758:Jan 30,Feb 19 ABERYSTWYTH B-704:Dec21,Jan20,Feb26 ACHILL ISLAND ON-1245(14-29):Feb 19,20 AITH ON-1232(17-14):Jan21 ALDEBURGH D-520:Feb 13...
Category: Services
Feature: the Tamar Unleashed
It was the day when two of the RNLI's most significant projects crossed paths: the Institution's latest lifeboat was on trial at a unique new facility. Previously, the launching of a Tamar lifeboat on a slipway had only been...
Category: Articles
Great Rail Journeys
GREAT RAIL.
JOURNEYS Two of over 70 escorted tours worldwide 2008 Departure Dates and Prices 30 departures between 29 March and 18 October Prices from £1,290 to £1,450 2008 Departure Dates and Prices 10...
Category: Advertisement
Ben Doran
Two Wrecks in the Shetlands.
Stromness Motor Life-boat's Journeys of 260 and 240 Miles.
DURING March and April two vessels were wrecked on the Shetland Islands.
They were both vessels...
Alderney Wins the Cup!
Steve Shaw (left) receives the award from General Sir Michael Walker, Commander- in-Chief HQ Land and Admiral of Army Sailing Association. See 'Lifeboat Services' page 14 for a report of the lifeboal service.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fundraisers
FORTHCOMING EVENTS We regret that we are unable to include notices of forthcoming events in THE LIFEBOAT. Although we appreciate fully the benefits of obtaining advance publicity for fundraising events the sheer number involved would soon...
Category: Articles
The Naval Hammock—Its Buoyancy and Use In Saving Life at Sea—In Cases of Collision, Etc
IT is well known that the boats of a man- of-war are, as a general rule, insufficient in number and capacity to save her crew except in the smoothest water; also, that the largest and safest are stowed on the booms, from whence time is...
Category: Articles
Looking Across One Corner of Machine Shop to Area Where Lifejackets Are Serviced and Ilbs Held for Distribution to the Coast; All Major Ilb Servicing Is Done at Cowes
Looking across one corner of machine shop to area where lifejackets are serviced and ILBs held for distribution to the coast; all major ILB servicing is done at Cowes.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services March April and May 1987
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: April 17 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic2l: April 19 (twice), 20 and May 17 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic21: April 19, May 20 and 24 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class inflatable: April 26 and May 30 Aith, Shetland 52ft...
Category: Services
Dot
Beaumaris, Anglesey.—At 10.30 on the morning of the 1st of May, 1955, the life-boat coxswain noticed that a racing yacht appeared to be in diffi- culties in Friar's Bay and was making heavy weather. He kept her under observation, and at...