LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Functional Clothing
"Airflow" JACKET & CONTOUR HOOD SEAGOING OVERTROUSERS Functional protection with the best weather clothing in the world ideal for work or leisure 'Airflow' coat and jackets are wind and water proof outer clothing and...
Category: Advertisement
Naval Motor Boats
SEPTEMBER 22ND. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. Naval motor boats had been reported in need of help, but with the help of a tug, and escorted by a motor launch, they reached Harwich. - Rewards, £4 3s.
Miniature Arun:
Miniature Arun: this model of Humber lifeboat, City of Bradford IV, took its creator, Brian Sumner, a winter of long nights to complete.
The hull is carved from solid spruce and the rest is made from plywood and anything... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ocean Belle and Pacific
BULL BAY.—At 2.15 P.M. on the 22nd December, 1886, a signal of distress was shown by the schooner Ocean Belle, of Amlwch, which was at anchor in a dangerous position in the Bay, Anglesey, during a strong wind from the...
Guiding Star
The schooner Guiding Star, of Runcorn, while bound to Fisherow with a cargo of salt, became windbound when at anchor in Scrabster Roads, and on the 12th November a whole N.N.E. gale sprang up. The vessel, being in an ex- posed position,...
A Capital Idea
GORDON STABLES, Esq., M.D., E.N., of Twyford, Berkshire, the well-known author, in a letter published a short time since in The Stock-keeper and Fancier's Chronicle, made the following admirable suggestion, which we trust may be carried...
Category: Correspondence
Devotion
Eyemouth, Berwickshire.—At 12.57 on the afternoon of the 22nd of October, 1952, a fisherman at Burnmouth tele- phoned that the motor fishing boat Devotion, of Burnmouth, with a crew of four, was flying a distress signal three miles...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 6.20 on the evening of the 9th of August, 1953, the coastguard telephoned to say that a sailing dinghy had capsized off Oving- dean, and that her crew of two were clinging to her. At 6.35 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian...
A Dinghy (1)
PILOT CUTTER'S REPORT At 8.14 p.m. on 4th September, 1964, .the coastguard told the honorary secretary that Nab pilot cutter had reported a dinghy adrift but was unable to help.
It was two hours before high water with...
None (2)
HAD APPENDICITIS At 11.30 a.m. on yth November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that one of the personnel of Radio Invicta, a transmitting station on Redsand Towers, had appendicitis and needed medical treatment. There was a...