LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sandrae
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 5.18 on the evening of the 24th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had broken down three miles south of St.
Catherine's and needed a tow. There was...
Luncheon Honour
Coxswain John King, of Bridlington, Yorkshire, who won the Institution's bronze medal for gallantry in February, 1968, for the rescue of a woman from the German m.v. Maria F, attended the 'Men of the Year' luncheon at the Savoy...
Category: Awards
Captain Harold G. Innes, R.N. (Ret.)
Captain Harold G. Innes, R.N. (Ret.), died at Cromarty on 4th March, 1966.
He was a former District Inspector of Life-boats, RNLI, for the old Western and Southern Districts. He retired in 1929..
Category: Obituaries
Schermuly Ltd
WHEN LIVES ARE AT STAKE Schermuly pyrotechnic life-saving equipment—outstanding for performance and reliability—is the choice of the R.N.L.I., H.M. Coastguard and Trinity House.
Line-Throwing Apparatus — Distress Signalling...
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Showboat - and Carriage
So often the Cinderella... This year a sizeable stand at the London Boat Show enabled the Talus tractor and sophisticated Mersey launching carriage to share the limelight with the lifeboat they launch. Photo Mike Anker, Take Two. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Isa
MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—On the night of the 21st December, during a thick fog, the schooner Isa, of Inverness, bound from Charlestown for Euncorn with a cargo of china clay, struck on the Dolas Bocks and became a total wreck. On the following...
Hrh Prince Philip
HRH Prince Philip viewed the lifeboat collection in Chatham while visiting the Historic Dockyard in early 1995. The lifeboats had only recently arrived and were stored on a shingle base with simple information boards.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Vessel (2)
JANUARY 19TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE. A vessel had been reported ashore on Tiree Island, but the lifeboat’s help was not needed and the call was cancelled. Her crew were three short, and these places were filled by three naval...
When Col J. T. Benn the District Organising Secretary for the Midlands Attended the Annual Meeting of the Caister-On-Sea Branch In Norfolk He Presented a Silver Badge
When Col. J. T. Benn, the District Organising Secretary for the Midlands, attended the annual meeting of the Caister-on-Sea branch in Norfolk, he presented a silver badge to Miss Alice Brown, a vice president of the Caister ladies'... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Neco Marine Ltd
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