LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Provider A, Pilot Me II, Venus, Lead Us and Progress
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 1.15 on the afternoon of the 4th of February, 1953.
local fishermen reported that bad weather was making conditions dan- gerous at the harbour bar, and at 1.20 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hep- worth...
Colonel J. Benskin
COLONEL JOSEPH BENSKIN, D.S.O., O.B.E., died on the 14th of July, 1953.
He had been a member of the Com- mittee of Management since 1929 and a Vice-President since 1948. He was appointed a member of the Finance Committee in...
Category: Obituaries
(Below) a Vintage Gift: This 1926
(Below) A vintage gift: this 1926, four-seater open tourer Rolls-Royce 20 was generously donated to the RNLI and recently came under the hammer at a Christie's car auction at Beaulieu in Hampshire. In the words of the sale catalogue:... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
TOWN & COUNTRY DRIVEWAY
A TOWN & COUNTRY DRIVEWAY Simp Driveways money can buy Although a Town & Country driveway is beautiful to look at, its beauty is more than skin deep. Beneath the surface is a unique fibre reinforcement that helps prevent sinking and...
Category: Advertisement
1826 Plan of Douglas Bay and Harbour Clearly Shows Hazardous Rocks Improvements to Harbour Works Running Out from Douglas Head and St.Mary's Rock Propose
1826 Plan of Douglas Bay and Harbour clearly shows hazardous rocks. Improvements to harbour works, running out from Douglas Head and St Mary's Rock, proposed by Sir William Hillary, are hatched.
by courtesy of the Manx...
Category: Charts
Laidaure
Campbeltown, Argyllshire.—At 6.50 on the evening of the 19th of January, 1954, the Portpatrick radio station telephoned a local doctor that the motor vessel Laidaure, of Stockholm, a vessel of 6,000 tons, was making for Campbeltown with an...
Tervani
Stornoway, Hebrides. At 11.15 on the night of the 21st of October, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secre- tary that a trawler bound for Storno- way from the Little Minch had a badly injured man on board who needed immediate medical...
Asterionella
Capsize THE DAY OF TUESDAY AUGUST 26, 1986, dawned at Brighton with gale force winds blowing from the south south west, gusting to force 9 and skies overcast with a slight drizzle. Very heavy seas were running and waves up to 15 feet in...
Adventure, George and Margaret and Louisa Twyzell (1)
Blyth, and Newbiggin, Northumber- land.—At 7.32 on the morning of the 10th of May, 1955, the coastguard telephoned the Blyth life-boat station to say a man at Cambois had reported that a fishing coble appeared to be in difficulties in...
Austerity
Ramsgate, Kent. At 7.3 on the evening of the 26th December, 1961, the Deal coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the motor vessel Austerity of London had wirelessed that one of her crew was injured and that she wished to land him...