LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Rubber Dinghy
Penlee, Cornwall.—At ten o'clock on the morning of the 10th of March, 1957, the St. Just coastguard telephoned that a rubber dinghy had been seen south-west of Penzer Point. The life- boat IF. and S. was launched thirty minutes later in...
Unsung station hero
What present would you give to a lifeboatman or woman? Fred. Olsen has found a novel way to show their appreciation of volunteers, by donating a 8-night Mediterranean cruise.
Lifeboat volunteers nominated an 'unsung...
Category: Articles
Three Generations to the Rescue
Three Generations To The Rescue. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Royal Visit to RNLI Museum
Left to right: Mr J Evans, chairman Grace Darling Museum committee, HRH The Duke of Gloucester. - View image in PDF
HRH The Duchess of Gloucester. Mrs Christine Bell, honorary curator Grace Darling museum.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
AUGUST 9TH. - CLOGHER HEAD, CO.
LOUTH. A sailing dinghy had been reported missing and could not be found, but it returned the next day. - Records, £16 8s..
Cover Picture
Ships that pass . . . from an Atlantic 21, Ambrose Greenway took this picture of an experimental 19' Zodiac Mark V, crossing the larger ILITs wash. The Zodiac Mark V has a standing steering position, to give the helmsman better height of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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West Mersea, Essex. At about 4.30 p.m. on 2oth April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that three people were stranded on a sandbank at Point Gear on the River (Seine. At 4.30 the IRB launched in a ftesh north-westerly...
Death of Two Scottish Coxswains. Walter Fairbairn, of Dunbar and Skateraw, and John Swanson, of Longhope
Walter Fairbairn, of Dunbar and Skateraw, and John Swanson, of Longhope.
THE Institution has lost, in one week, two very distinguished Scottish coxswains. Ex-Coxswain Walter Fair- bairn, of Dunbar and Skateraw,...
Category: Obituaries
Albert Wilhelm
HAYLE.—The brig Albert Wilhelm, of Barth, Germany, bound from the Isle of Man for Fowey, in ballast, bore up into St. Ives Bay, on the 17th October, during a strong gale from the N.N.W.
and a heavy sea, became embayed,...
Dalkeith, of Stornoway
The Life-boat Charley Lloyd, in answer to a signal of distress shown from the schooner Dalkeith, of Stornoway, went off at 5 A.M. on the 16th Dec. The Dalkeith was anchored in Serab- ster Roads, but the violence of the wind had caused her to...