LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Barrow May 16 1987
British Nuclear Fuels Limited's (BNF1) marine terminal provided an ideal location for the naming ceremony of Barrow's 47ft Tyne class lifeboat, on a cool sunny day in May.
The new lifeboat James Bibby—dressed... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Obituaries
With deep regret we record the following deaths: MAY 1995 Sam Baxter MBE, honorary life president of Morecambe & Heysham financial branch.
Serving as honorary secretary of Morecambe lifeboat station from 1967 to 1978...
Category: Obituaries
Spring
SENNEN COVE, LAND'S END.—The smack Spring, of Guernsey, bound from Swansea to Dinan, with coal, was observed to be showing a signal of distress, at 1.30 P.M., on the 8th January. The Life-boat Denzil and Maria Onslow at once went to her...
Peaceful
St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—Just before four o'clock in the afternoon of the 29th of March, 1948, the coastguard reported a motor boat that appeared to be in difficulties off Lizard Point, Tresco. The wind was rising. By five...
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Salcombe, Devon - At 8.32 p.m. on 20th April, 1967, news was received that a boy was missing from a youth hostel at Oversteps and was presumed to have fallen over the cliffs at Lambrey Point.
The life-boat Baltic Exchange,...
Players Ltd.
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Category: Advertisement
A Storm Boat and a Dinghy
Easrney, Hampshire - At 7.2 p.m. on 19th April, 1970, the coastguard told the assistant honorary secretary that a stormboat with a number of skin divers aboard was in difficulties near the Horse Sand fort and was being driven out to sea by...
Ira
Caister, Norfolk. At 7.40 p.m. on 12th February, 1966, one of the life-boat shore helpers had heard a distress call from the trawler Ira of Lowestoft stating that the trawler was aground five miles south-east of Haisbro' lighthouse, and...
(Left) Canadian Coast Guard Has for Some Years Used Hovercraft In Its Rescue Work the First a British Hovercraft Corporation Srn5 Became Operational at Vancouv
(Left) Canadian Coast Guard has for some years used hovercraft in its rescue work. - View image in PDF
The first, a British Hovercraft Corporation SRN5, became operational at Vancouver in 1969.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
United States Life-Boats
IN the June, 1964, number of THE LIFE-BOAT it was stated that a delegation from the United States Coast Guard which visited Europe in 1928 had decided that the Watson cabin life-boat of the R.N.L.I. was the most suitable for their purposes...
Category: Articles