LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ponthieu
PENZANCE.—On the 17th May, soon after 10 A.M., a mounted messenger armed at Penzance -with the HOTS that abrig was ashore at Perran, five miles eastward of that port. The wind was blowing strongly from S., and the sea was somewhat heavy at...
(Above) of the £6000 Raised By Salcombe and Hope Branch No Less Than £2066 Resulted from the Efforts of the Lifeboat Crew and Their Wives Money Was Raised By Dance
(Above) Of the £6,000 raised by Salcombe and Hope branch, no less than £2,066 resulted from the efforts of the lifeboat crew and their wives. Money was raised by dances and other functions, but a large proportion came from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Saga of Stronsay
When their pagers woke them in the early hours of Sunday 25 October 2009, Kirkwall lifeboat crew didn’t know they were to face 9 hours at sea and an injury of their own
Stronsay, looking like a missing piece of some...
Category: Articles
Surfboards
Surfer saved by D class in appal l|n g conditionsTramore's D class inflatable saved a surfer on 6 June lastyear in conditions which tested both the lifeboat and her crew to the limit.
In conditions which turned out to...
The Belgian Motor Trawler St. Jan Berchmans, of Ostend
MARCH 10TH. - 11TH. - HELVICK HEAD, CO. WATERFORD. Late on the night of the 9th of March the Belgian motor trawler St. Jan Berchmans, of Ostend, with a crew of seven, was fishing about five miles from Mine Head in a strong south-easterly...
A Life-Boat Film In Australia
IN the Yarmouth Mercury on 5th March last, under the heading " Yarmouth and Gorleston Motor Life-boat's Fame in Australia," a letter was published "which had been received by a Gorleston man from his son in Australia. He...
Category: Articles
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
THE SOUTH BANK MEETINGS, MAY 13, 1986 Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards Apart from the citations for a silver and two bronze medals which received rapturous applause when they were read out to the audience at the Royal...
Category: Meetings
September (1)
SEPTEMBER MEETING FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. On the 11th June, 1942, a Spitfire aeroplane was on a practice flight when the engine failed and the pilot landed on the sea. There was a slight swell with a light N.E. wind. The aeroplane sank...
Category: Services
Clarke, Chapman & Company Limited
MARINE AUXILIARII for LIFE-BOAT STATIOh Six-ton "Above Ground" type of electrically driven capstan supplied to the Royal National Life-boat Institution for hauling in the life-boat at Walmer Life-boat...
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Clarke, Chapman & Company Limited
MARINE AUXILIARIES for LIFE-BOAT STATIONS the Royal National Life-boat I n s t i t u t i o n for hauling in the life-boat at Walmer Life-boat Station.
Similar capstans have been installed at Hastings, Clovelly and...
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