LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Launching and Recovery—Part III: Tractor and Carriage Launch By Edward Wake-Walker Assistant Public Relations Officer (London)
SEAMEN, FISHERMEN and private boat owners all know that whenever they put to sea, together with an awareness of the state of the weather and of what is forecast, the state of the tide is of paramount importance to their...
Category: Articles
17' 6" Model of a Watson Lifeboat Built from All Kinds of Scrap Material By Boys Ami Girls of Romford and Dagenham Model Boat Club
17' 6" model of a Watson lifeboat, built from all kinds of scrap material by boys ami girls of Romford and Dagenliam Model Boat Club. The club, affiliated to the Dagcnliain branch of the RNLI, has so far raised £850 with this... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Inshore Lifeboat Services June July and August 1977
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire July 16.
Aberdovey, Gwynedd June 5 (twice), 9 (twice), July 3 (3 times), 7, 10, 26, August 4, 17 and 20.
Abersoch, Gwynedd June 5, 10, 16, 30, July 11, 18, 21, August 11, 20, 21 and...
Category: Services
Arranmore’s Lifeboat Really Did Face ‘all weathers’, Like This Severn Class, And The Inflatable Y Boat Stored On Top Proved Invaluable Once The Storm Began To Ease
Arranmore’s lifeboat really did face ‘all weathers’, like this Severn class, and the inflatable Y boat stored on top proved invaluable once the storm began to ease. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
El Cid
SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND Clovelly, Devon. At 2.15 a.m. on nth October, 1965, the coastguard reported that a ship in distress had fired rockets north-west of Hartland Point. The lifeboat William Cantrell Ashley was launched in a moderate easterly...
Local Girls Who Went Out Collecting for the R.N.L.I, at Llandudno Last Year. They Are (Left to Right) Anne Williams, Lyn Neville, Jane Gregory and Hilary Neville.
Local girls who went out collecting for the R.N.L.I, at Llandudno last year. They are (left to right) Anne Williams, Lyn Neville, Jane Gregory and Hilary Neville.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Three Cutters
SEPTEMBER 7TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN. At 11 A.M. the naval authorities reported that a naval cutter, being used for training purposes off Douglas, was being driven on to the rocks at Onchan Head. A strong W.S.W. breeze was blowing, with a...
and Check That She Returns to An Even Keel' Oakley 37' Lifeboat
. , . and check that she returns to an even keel.' Oakley 37' lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Motor Fishing Vessels Pilot Me and Gem
DECEMBER 4TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
At five in the morning the local motor fishing vessels Pilot Me and Gem put to sea in bad weather. During the morning the weather worsened and at one o’clock the coastguard reported that a...
The Barges Maid of Munster, Asphodel, Adriatic and Vigilant
FOUR SERVICES IN SEVENTEEN HOURS Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.30 in the afternoon of the 23rd of April, 1947, a resident of Leigh telephoned that a fishing boat was ashore at Marsh End, off Leigh. A strong south-south-west gale was blowing,...