LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Pontoon (1)
Hartlepool, Co. Durham. About eight o'clock on the morning of the 7th September, 1961, the second coxswain received a request, while he was fishing to the north of Hartlepool, from a representative of Messrs. Wimpey and Co. to land men...
Chas Frank Ltd
Hand-held & Tripod-mounted BINOCULARS & TELESCOPES Since the turn of the century, Charles Frank Ltd.
have specialised in Binoculars and Telescopes, and the instruments which we manufacture in our Glasgow factory are...
Category: Advertisement
Around the Coast
A LARGE CROWD gathered at Selsey on April 25 for the handing over and dedication of the station's new D class lifeboat which is the gift of Selsey Lions Club. The lifeboat was presented by Mr A. E. Ryan, president of Selsey Lions, to...
Category: Articles
Clarke, Chapman & Company Ltd
CLARKE CHAPMAN MARINE A U XI LI ARI ES FOR LIFE-BOAT STATI O N S This illustrates one of our electrically driven winches as supplied to the Tynemouth Life- boat Station for haul- ing up the life-boat.
Many other winches...
Category: Advertisement
Madame Sands
At 9.38 a.m. on 22nd March, 1967, news was received that the motor fishing vessel Madame Sands was proceeding to Bridlington Bay with a mine on board. The life-boat crew stood by until 10.42 when a message was received from the coastguard...
A Light Aircraft and a Yacht
Air crash search THE station honorary secretary of Portsmouth (Langstone Harbour) was alerted by Lee-on-Solent Coastguard MRSC at 1105 on April 30, 1987 with news of a crashed aircraft, down in East Solent near Horse Sand...
An Inflatable Dinghy
Dinghy adrift MOELFRE'S 16ft D class inflatable lifeboat launched at 1250 on Tuesday August 20, 1985, after Holyhead coastguard reported that two divers who were working on the 100-year-old wreck of the Royal Charter were beingblown out...
Emma
APRIL 27TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
At 11.45 in the morning the coastguard at Warden Point, Isle of Sheppey, reported that a barge was drifting towards the targets of the Royal Air Force off Leysdown, and at 11.55 the...
The S.S. Graiglas
DECEMBER 3RD. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM, AND TEESMOUTH, YORKSHIRE.
At 4.56 in the morning the coastguard telephoned the life-boat station that two vessels appeared to be in danger, and twenty minutes later he asked that the life...
The Late Queen Alexandra
BY the death of Queen Alexandra on 20th November, 1925, the Institution, loses one of its three Royal Patrons, Queen Alexandra had been associated with the work of the Institution for forty-two years, It was in 1883, as Princess of Wales,...
Category: Obituaries