LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Below) Selsey Lifeboat John and Henry Skynner
(Below) Se/sey lifeboat John and Henry Skynner was built in 1885 and took part in the London Lord Mayor's Show of that year before going on station. She was 35ft long. 7ft 6in beam, pulled ten oars and was fitted with water ballast tanks... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Awards to Coxswains and Crews
THE following coxswains and members of life-boat crews were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and in addition those entitled to them, by the Institution's regulations, were awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance...
Category: Awards
Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE Dunbar inshore lifeboat returns to harbour after giving display on lifeboat day, July 20. She is a 16' D class inflatable lifeboat built by RFD. Inner tubes fitted within the buoyancy tubes markedly improve air-holding over... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Sailing Dinghies
OVERTURNED DINGHIES At 11.44 a.m. on loth June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small yacht in the direction of Penrhos Bay appeared to be in difficulties. A helicopter had been alerted and had already set out. The...
Iron Duke
CAISTER.—At about 3 A.M. on the 1st November, signals of distress were ob-served, and the Life-boat Covent Garden put off. She proceeded in the direction of the signals, across the Scroby Sand, and found the fishing smack Iron Duke, of...
February (1)
FEBRUARY MEETING CRICCIETH, CAERNARVONSHIRE. Shortly before 6 in the evening of the 6th January, 1942, it became known that an Anson trainer aeroplane had come down in the sea in Tremadoc Ray. A light northerly wind was blowing, with a...
Category: Services
Yachts
Beaumaris, Anglesey - At 2.50 p.m.
on 9th August, 1966, during the localtown regatta, a strong south westerly wind developed which suddenly capsized many of the smaller craft which were near the starting line. This kept the...
Embrace
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 26th of March, 1961, the coastguard informed the hon- orary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Embrace of Hartlepool had fouled her propeller two miles north of the Heugh and was...
Shoreline
SINCE THE VERY START of the lifeboat service, women have played an important part in its existence. If there was only one Grace Darling, there were dozens of women who helped to launch the lifeboats in early days—and there are still those...
Category: Articles
Jenny Rose
Selsey, Sussex. At 6 p.m. on 8th January, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a white flashing light had been observed a half a mile south of Chichester Harbour. A R.A.F.
helicopter from No. 22...