LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Royal engagement
Lifeboat naming ceremonies are always significant occasions, but few have attracted as much attention as the one that took place at Trearddur Bay Lifeboat Station, Anglesey, in February.
The world’s media mingled with over...
Category: Articles
Adventurer
FISHING BOAT TAKEN IN TOW Galway Bay.—At 1.30 in the afternoon of the 20th of December, 1947, in a strong north-westerly breeze, with a rough sea, the motor life-boat K.E.C.F.
was returning from Baltimore to Valentia...
Cover Picture
The Shoreham, Sussex, life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant—she is a 42-foot Watson cabin class type—leaving her slipway during a recent exercise in which she was specially photographed by Mr. J.
Jochimsen of Photo Process... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Explosive Catch
MR. F. DOWNS, a member of the Whitstable inshore rescue boat crew, recently helped to save his own fishing boat from a possible explosion by a German magnetic mine.
His fishing boat, Harvester II, was found to have a German...
Category: Services
St. David's Coxswain.
Coxswain William Watts Williams at the Annual Meeting. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hattersley Newman Hender Ltd
'Hattersley' valves sail the wide world over, serving under many flags in the universal cause of safety at sea.
the with the Hattersley Newman Mender Ltd Ormskirk, Lancashire.
Category: Advertisement
Razani
Galway Bay.-On 25th October, 1967, the coxswain and crew boarded the life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson, under very severe weather conditions, to go to the help of the motor vessel Razani for which special awards were granted. A full account of...
Lone Seeker
MEDAL FOR LYTHAM COXSWAIN On the 21st July. 1962, the Lytham- St.-Anne's life-boat towed the motor ketch Lone Seeker, which had four people aboard, from a dangerous position. For this service, a full account of which appears on page 346,...
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Howth, Co. Dublin. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 5th of March, 1959, the Baily lighthouse keeper informed the honorary secretary that a doctor was needed to attend a woman ex- pecting a baby on Lambay Island.
The weather...
An Auster Aircraft (1)
Dungeness, and Dover, Kent ; Hast- ings and Eastbourne, Sussex. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 7th of February, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Eastbourne that an Auster aircraft was missing on a flight from Lympne...