LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Let Not The Deep by Mike Lunnon-Wood published byHarper Collins at £4.99 (paperback) ISBN 0 00 647590 6 Novels which centre around the lifeboat service are rare enough, but one which is well constructed, gripping and also moving is a...
Category: Articles
A Man Hauled Ashore In a "Sling" Travelling on a Hawser
A Man Hauled Ashore In A "Sling" Travelling On A Hawser.
Category: Drawings
Above - Lifeboat Saturday In Glasgow: Launching the Lifeboat on the Clyde
Above - Lifeboat Saturday in Glasgow: launching the lifeboat on the Clyde. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Roy Clemo
PENLEE, Friday February 14, 1986: at 0630 Penlee's 52 ft Arun class lifeboat, Mabel Alice, with Coxswain Ken Thomas at the helm, set out in a force 10 east by southerly storm and poor visibility. The Guernsey registered coaster, Roy...
A Motor Boat (2)
CLINGING TO BOAT At 4.55 a.m. on 23rd August, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a boat was reported to have sunk off Cardigan Island and her occupants had reached the island. The sea was rough, with a strong...
Mr David Miles (Left) Manager of the 'Duke of York' Dering Street London Led a Sponsored Shave In Aid of the RNLI
Mr. David Miles (left), manager of the 'Duke of York', Dering Street, London, led a sponsored shave in aid of the R.N.L.I. He and his two barmen, Mr. Alan Hart and Mr. Sam Weaver, grew moustaches and beards for one month and then had... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bronze Medal for a Brave Irish Boy
As our readers know, the Institution makes awards for all rescues or attempted rescues of those in peril from shipwreck round the coasts of the United Kingdom, whether the rescues are performed by the Life-boat crews themselves or by private...
Category: Medals
The Lancashire School's Symphony Orchestra Were Among Passengers Who Had to Be Rescued from the Ferry Winston Churchill When She Ran Aground In Gothenberg Sweden Last Summer Th
The Lancashire School's Symphony Orchestra were among passengers who had to be rescued from the ferry Winston Churchill when she ran aground in Gothenberg, Sweden, last summer. The conductor, Malcolm Doley, is pictured here with the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Hull Form of the Arun Class Is Shown Clearly In This Self-Righting Trial
The hull form of the Arun class is shown clearly in this self-righting trial. Note the flat sections aft to promote planing and the small tunnels to allow larger propellers.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Virgin IV
TOWED TO SHELTER At 11.50 a.m. on 2nd May, 1964, the owner of the motor fishing vessel Virgin IV of Campbeltown told the honorary secretary that his vessel, having fouled her propeller earlier that morning, might be in trouble in worsening...