LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
From the Director
Printing deadlines mean that I have to write my annual message in mid-October - a convenient time on this occasion because I have just returned from two visits which, in their separate ways, confirmed that the RNLI is buoyant and in good...
Category: Articles
All Three 70Ft Clyde Class (Right) Were Withdrawn from Service During the Summer of 1988 T
all three 70ft Clyde class (right) were withdrawn from service during the summer of 1988. The Clydes will be sold out of service and two of the four McLachlans will be retained for use as boarding boats at Number (Clyde photo courtesy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Valentia's New 52Ft Arun Margaret Frances Love
Valentia's new 52ft Arun Margaret Frances Love was greeted when she arrived on station in February by the previous Valentia lifeboat, the 52ft Barnett Rowland Watts. The photograph was taken by Richard J. Robinson, a former crew member,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
John 'Jinks' Smith,
August John 'Jinks' Smith, former Portpatrick lifeboat crew member died aged 70. John was the last surviving member of the crew that went to the aid of the stricken Princess Victoria m 1953..
Category: Obituaries
Books
• The Pocket Oxford Guide to Sailing Terms has been abridged by Ian Dean- —himself a keen sailor—from the classic work by Peter Kemp, Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea. The slim volume, published by Oxford University Press, price...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (26)
MARCH 25TH - 26TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE, AND PWLLHELI, CAERNARVONSHIRE. SOS flashes had been seen by the coastguard about six miles east of Cilan Head on the evening of March 25th, and at 9.45 the Pwllheli motor life-boat Ministre...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1930
Persona Time of rescued from Launching. shipwreck.
3.45 p.m. S.S. Lestris, of Bruges. Sheringham Life-boat rendered assistance.
2.0 a.m. Steam trawler Braconmoor, of Aberdeen. Longhope...
Category: Services
Books
I ! ) South By South West (Painting the Channel Islands) by Peter Collyer published by Thomas Reed Publications at £27.50 ISBN 0901281 840 This latest publication from Peter Collyer is a record of many trips to the Channel Islands that...
Category: Articles
Jaroma
On 24th August, 1969, the lifeboat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) was launched to the help of the motor fishing vessel Jaroma. A full account of this service, for which special awards were granted, will appear in the March number of...
News
Readers will have heard about the recent tragedy at Lancashire's Morecambe Bay when 20 cockle pickers died after becoming trapped by rising tides Morecambe's inshore lifeboat and hovercraft, together with Fleetwood's all weather...
Category: Articles