LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Jammed gears MOELFRE HONORARY SECRETARY W3S informed by the Coastguard at 1537 on Sunday, March 30, that a 14' open speedboat with a 25 hp engine, carrying a crew of four, had broken down, her gears jammed, 2| nautical miles south south...

On the South and East Coasts.

On the south coast the Weymouth Motor Life-boat was out for nearly six hours, from 6.30 in the evening until after midnight, in response to the S.U.S.

of the steam-tanker M....

SCHOOLS FOR SAILORS.* THIRD ARTICLE.

IN completion of what I have before said, while advocating the claims of sailors upon public aid for special instruction, I will now only make a few supplementary remarks upon the...

TYNEMOUTH.—On the 20th October the barque Iron Crown, of Liverpool, while entering Tynemouth about midnight, in a tremendous gale from E.S.E. to E. and a very high sea, became unmanageable near the pier ends, and, after narrowly escaping...

Lifeboat Services from page 154 Anstruther, Fife 37ft Oakley: November 12 Appledore, North Devon Atlantic 21: September 2, 9, 12 and 18 Arran (Lamlash), Buteshire D class inflatable: October 25 Arranmore, Co. Donegal 52ft Barnett: September...

75 years ago From The Life-Boat of 1920 The great difficulty in the way of Life-boat launches on flat beaches is the difficulty of the horses. It is becoming increasingly hard to get the use of horses and the men to manage them, and they...

Two of a set of Cavan Crystal Gaelic coffee (or wine) glasses. Each glass carries a different RNLI decoration. Price £3.50 from RNLI Dublin Office (10 Merrion Square), or from our shop at Bell Parade, Glebe Way, West Wickham, Kent... - View image in PDF

COXSWAIX J. A. ATKINSON died on the 17th of October, 1955, at the age of 76. He was coxswain of the Padstow no. 1 life-boat from 1929 until he retired in 1944. His earliest appoint- ment by the Institution was as mate of the tug Helen Peele...