LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Maxstoke Castle
Maxstoke Castle, near Colehill, is open to the public on only two days of the year, each time in aid of a charity. The turn of the RNLI (above) was a huge success when on a beautiful afternoon last July £1,795 was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pye Telecommunications
Pye Telecom breaks the silence barrier.
Without instant communication you cannot properly cope with today's changing situations. Two-way radio communication via Pye personal and mobile radiotelephones keeps you off the...
Category: Advertisement
Fig 1: Welding In Progress on the Workshop Floor: (Above) the Engine Bearers Are Assembled
Fig 1: Welding in progress on the workshop floor: (above) the engine bearers are assembled . . .. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Boat Nelly
The motor life-boat Elliot Galer was launched at 11.45 A.M. on the 1st August, as the coastguard had tele- phoned that the sailing boat Nelly, of Leith, with one man on board, had capsized and sunk two miles south of Seaham, and two miles...
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Arranmore, Co. Donegal. On the 1st of January, 1959, the body of a young man from Arranmore, who had been killed in an accident in Wales, was brought to Burtonport, but because of the stormy weather it was not possible to take the...
Cullercoats News
Although the Cullercoats, Northumberland, life-boat station has been closed, support for the life-boat service is as strong as ever it was. All local fund-raising events are to go on as usual, those for the rest of the year being a coffee...
Category: Articles
Bronwin
Hastings, Sussex. Thirty minutes after midnight on 8th September, 1965, a red flare was sighted two miles south of the Fairlight coastguard lookout. There was a strong south-westerly breeze with a moderate sea and an ebbing tide. The...
A Speed Boat (2)
Mudeford, Hampshire. At 1.20 p.m.
on i8th April, 1965, a member of the crew of the inshore rescue boat saw a speedboat with her crew of two in the water after she had been swamped at die harbour entrance. At 1.25 the IRB...
An American Tribute.
On March 2nd, 1941, the "New Yovk Times" published a leading aiticlt on the work of the British Life-boat Service: "The R.N.L.I." it said, "has been called the noblest of England's charitable societies. Though...
Category: Articles
Cygnet
Wicklow.—During the evening of the 1st June, 1938, the motor yacht Cygnet, of Dublin, with a man and a boy on board, was caught by bad weather E.S.E. of Wicklow Head. Her steeringgear was damaged and she began to make water. A moderate N.E....