LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wild Rosw
At 4.15 A.M. on 24th November a telephone message was- received stating that a trawler was ashore in Hawick Bay.
The Life-boat Arthur B. Dawes pro- ceeded to her, and by request took off one of the crew, but the remainder...
Sea Breeze
On the evening of the 19th July the Coxswain was told by boatmen that a motor boat was in difficulties near the Long Nose Buoy, and was drifting out to sea on the ebb tide. A light easterly breeze was blow- ing and the sea was smooth. The...
Yacht Beaver
BERWICK-ON-TWEED.—On the 22nd April, the steam-yacht Beaver, of Berwick, was seen in the bay showing signals of distress while a strong breeze was blowing from the W.N.W. The Life-boat John and Janet put off to her assistance at 5 P.M. and...
A Steam Trawler
Scarborough, Filey and Flamborough, Yorkshire.—24th-25th September. The steam trawler Skegness, of Hull, went ashore on Speeton Cliffs and three life- boats and the life-saving apparatus were called out, but all efforts at rescue failed,...
Coxswain Philip Boyle
Coxswain Philip Boyle of Arranmore died on the 23rd of November, 1958, at the age of 60. He was appointed coxswain of the Arranmore life-boat in 1949 after having served as a bowman from 1935 to 1944 and second coxswain from 1944 to 1949. He...
Category: Obituaries
Professor Edgar A. Pask
The late Professor Edgar A. Pask, O.B.E., M.D., M.A., M.B., B.Chir., D.A., F.F.A.R.C.S., who was a member of the Committee of Management of the Institution, was honoured at an informal ceremony in November in the presence of the Duke and...
Category: Awards
The 54Ft Arun Lifeboat Tony Vandervell
The 54ft Arun lifeboat Tony Vandervell in Portland Race. Stationed at Weymouth since 1976, she was the first of her class to have the hull built in glass reinforced plastic. The Arun is a 'fast afloat' boat, her twin Caterpillar... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cover Picture
Just seconds after launching, the crew of Shoreham Harbour lifeboat, the 42ft Watson Dorothy and Philip Constant, raise the radar scanner anil radio aerials which are folded back while the boat is in her boathouse.
Dorothy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Durdham
New Tyne keeps disabled tug off Devon rocks Salcombe - South West Division The qualities of Salcombe's new Tyne class lifeboat Baltic Exchange II were put to the test on 21 October 1988 in a service which led to the coxswain, Frank Smith...
Broughty Ferry (Dundee):
Broughty Ferry (Dundee): After the handing over on Saturday, October 1, 1983, of the second D class inflatable lifeboat funded by a promotion jointly undertaken in Scotland by Ind Coope and the Co-op, the new inflatable lifeboat took part in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs