LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sailing Boat Hilda Kate
TOW FOR BOAT BECALMED Weymouth, Dorset. At 1.40 early on the morning of the 5th August, 1962, the police informed the honorary secretary that a sailing boat with a boy and girl on board was overdue, and at two o'clock the life-boat Frank...
Entertainment of the Medallists In London
COXSWAIN WILLIAM ROBINSON of Newbiggin, Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Dent, the representatives of the twenty-five women launchers of Newbiggin, and the five other Bronze Medallists who attended the Annual Meeting to be decorated, were the guests of...
Category: Articles
Humber Lifeboat Crew In 1956 When the Late Captain William S Anderson (Fourth from Right) Was the Superintendent Coxswain Standing Directly By the Bow Is Mr Robert
Humber lifeboat crew in 1956 when the late Captain William S. Anderson (fourth from rig/it) was the superintendent coxswain.
Standing directly by the bow is Mr Robertson Buchan, his son-in-law, who recently retired as... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
(S«e Diagrams «« next page.) The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat. Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house...
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Stand-off in the storm
When a fishing crew drifted close to a rocky coastline, powerless against vicious wind and waves, all their hopes lay with a helicopter crew and lifeboat volunteers
‘With the weather like it...
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Inset: Off Dunkirk the fleet was met by the French Societe Nationals de Sauvetage en Mer rescue vessel Jean Bart.
Inset: Off Dunkirk the fleet was met by the French Societe Nationals de Sauvetage en Mer rescue vessel Jean Bart.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Rescue
A fair breeze the sails of the good ship was swelling, As gallantly homeward she sped on her way; While the song of the sailors was joyously telling, " Home looms in the distance, love brooks no delay." "Y'heave-ho, with...
Category: Poetry
The Fishery Patrol Vessel Switha (1)
Patrol vessel holed IN EASTERLY GALES early on Thursday January 31, 1980, fishery patrol vessel Switha, bound for Leith, ran aground on the rocks near Herwit Buoy in the Firth of Forth, a mile south east of Inchkeith Island. She was holed...
Greek Award to Selsey
THE Greek Government has awarded to the Selsey and Bognor motor life-boat its silver nautical medal for gallantry, in gratitude for the service to the steamer Menelaos, which was in distress on 2nd November, 1930.1 A gale was blowing, with a...
Category: Awards
The New Chief Inspector of Life-Boats
COMMANDER VAUX has been succeeded as chief inspector of life-boats by Commander T. G. Michelmore, R.D., R.N.R., the deputy chief inspector.
Commander Michelmore joined the Life-boat Service as a district inspector of...
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