LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
News and Views
End of an era...
Whenever a station changes lifeboats there is always a degree of sadness in handing back a trusted boat, tempered by the excitement of receiving a brand new vessel in its place. The Dover station's...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
Universal Dipchick
Islay, Hebrides. At 11.53 on the morning of the 15th of July, 1960, a report was received that the motor vessel Universal Dipchick was calling for the assistance of a life-boat as she had lost her anchor and was drifting towards the Black...
Consulting Naval Architect
MR. H. A. Lyndsay, B.Sc., M.R.I.N.A., has been appointed consulting naval architect to the Institution. Mr. Lyndsay, who has been principal officer of Sir J. H. Biles and Company, naval archi- tects and engineers, for over thirty years, is a...
Category: Articles
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Stronsay, Orkneys - At 10.20 p.m.
on 6th September, 1966, news was received that a patient on the Isle of Sanday needed medical attention. The life-boat The John Gellatly Hyndman slipped her moorings at 10.45 in a gale...
Mrs Townrow of Frome, Somerset,
MrsTownrow of Frome, Somerset, was proud to see the outcome of her funding of an IBI-type D class lifeboat as it passed en route to Howth,Co. Dublin.
(Pictured centre with the RNLI's Sarah Sleigh and Hugh Fogarty.)... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
Whitby Scarborough East Division TWO LIFEBOATS STAND BY IN SEVERE CONDITIONS Lifeboatman overboard during long service to stricken coaster Members of the Scarborough lifeboat crew hauled their own Second Coxswain, John Trotter, to safety...
Category: Services
Life-Saving on the Shannon continued from page 6
An earlier operation involving both launches was in I960 when an Alitalia DC-7C crashed seconds after take-oft" from Shannon Airport with 52 people aboard. It transpired that the aircraft failed to gain altitude after lifting off the...
Category: Articles
Your Letters
Coxswain's Thank-you Having been persuaded to be involved in the RNLI Christmas Appeal letter, I was overwhelmed with the amazing response - which resulted in donations totalling £400,000.
Several hundred...
Category: Correspondence
Gustave
SCARBOROUGH.—On the morning of the 2nd December, 1886, during a heavy gale from the N., the dandy Gustave, of and from St. Yalery-en-Canx for North Shields with flint stone, brought up in the roads about a mile S.E. from the piers, showed...