LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
U.B. Prince
Injured seaman rescued Eastbourne lifeboat was alerted on 3 March 2000 when a boat worker, aboard a cargo vessel bound for Equador, was forced to head inland for emergency surgery in a bid to save his fingers.
The Polish...
Above - George Begins His Thorough Inspection
Above - George begins his thorough inspection of Bude's D class lifeboat while Andrew Woods (inset) takes a wire brush and some WD40 to the fire extinguisher.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Right) Arun:
(right) Arun: length overall 52ft or 54ft; beam 17ft; draught 5ft; displacement 31 tons; maximum speed 18 knots; range at full speed, 200 nautical miles. The Arun, introduced in 1971, has a crew of six; she lies afloat. Hulls of the first... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Medals for Fleetwood and Sheringham.
Coxswain Jeffrey Wright, of Fleetwood, and the moter mechanic, Sydney Hill, have been awarded the Institution's silver medal, and each of the other four members of the crew its vellum, for rescuing the crew of a motor schooner from the...
Category: Articles
Macduff Grampian: Douglas Currie Prepares for Her Naming Ceremony Photograph By Courtesy of W J Heinrich
Macduff, Grampian: Douglas Currie prepares for her naming ceremony. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of W. J. Heinrich.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jacqueline and Trewarveneth
TRAWLER LOST PROPELLER At 4.10 p.m. on 26th November, 1965, the honorary secretary informed the coxswain that the Newlyn trawler Jacqueline had lost her propeller and that another trawler, the Trewarveneth, had attempted to give a tow but in...
Where Help Is Wanted
THE Institution is very anxious to form or develop Branches in the following places in Ireland and Wales, and would be very grateful to any readers of The Lifeboat who could help it to do this, either personally or by putting it in touch...
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Fishing Cobles
CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.— The Life-boat Go-operator No. 1 was launched about 8 A.M. on the 16th January to the assistance of five fishingcobles, which had put to sea in the early morning. Shortly after the boats had gone out the N.N.W....
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Galway Bay - At i p.m. on 30th May, 1967, the local doctor requested the service of the life-boat to take an elderly woman on Inishmaan Island to hospital.
The life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson, with a crew of five and a...
Ice Formations Around Margate Slipway In January
Ice Formations Around Margate Slipway In January. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs