LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
One Way of Propelling the Atlantic 21 Launching Trolley: Dodo a Separate Conventional Four-Wheel Drive Tractor Encased In a Watertight 'Hull' of Steel and Armour Plate
One way of propelling the Atlantic 21 launching trolley: DODO a separate conventional four-wheel drive tractor encased in a watertight 'hull' of steel and armour plated glass. On the trolley itself, outboard, can be seen the cooling... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Edenside
Plymouth, Devon. At 3.25 on the morning of the 4th of December, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Edenside in Plymouth Sound was dragging her anchors and had asked for the help of the life-boat. There...
Svaerdfisken
Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 10.18 on the morning of the 24th of November, 1954, the coastguard reported that the motor schooner Svaerdfisken, of Copen- hagen, was in distress seventy-five miles south-east-by-east of Bard Head and was drifting. At...
Athene
SEPTEMBER 15TH. - WESTON - SUPER MARE, SOMERSET. During the evening a man on Kilve Reach in Bridgwater Bay saw signals fired from a motor cruiser. He told the police who reported to the coastguard. The information reached the life-boat...
Rnli Poole Depot Quay Where Amateur Swimming Associations Was Named
RNLI Poole depot quay where Amateur Swimming Associations was named.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rosemary and Hilda II
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 8.25 in the morning of the 9th of February, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that, as the weather was freshening, anxiety was felt for the safety of the fishing cobles Rosemary and Hilda II which had left the...
Libruna
The barque Libnrna of Arendal, whilst bound from Gothenburg to South Africa, stranded off Shoreham about 5 P.M. on the 15th March. There was a S.W. gale blowing at the time, accompanied by a very heavy sea, and whilst the Life-boatmen were...
Mr. William Liggins, of Coventry
MR. WILLIAM LIGGINS, of Coventry, who died on the 29th of June, at the age of 97, was for over a third of his very long life associated with the Life-boat Service. He was honorary secretary of the Coventry branch from 1915 until 1933, and...
Category: Obituaries
A Yacht
New Quay, Cardiganshire - At 4.49 p.m. on 3rd September, 1966, a message was received that a yacht was in distress and burning flares. At 5.5 the life-boat St. Albans was launched in a fresh south south westerly wind and a rough...
Three New Life-Boats Named
ARBROATH H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, named the new Arbroath life-boat The Duke of Montrose at a ceremony held at the life-boat station in Arbroath harbour on the 21st of May, 1958. Provost D. A. Gardner,...
Category: Inaugurations