LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Garth Inn at Helensburgh
It was more a case of Bells than shackles away at the Garth Inn at Helensburgh when Helmsmen Colin Gardner (I) and Michael Roberts whacked the bottle with their trusty hammers.
Giving them a helping hand is John Beaton,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Life-Boathouse at Southend-On-Sea
IN 1928 the Institution stationed at Southend-on-Sea, Essex, a motor life- boat of the Ramsgate type. This life-boat, which had been given and endowed by the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, was named Greater London in the following year by H.R...
Category: Inaugurations
Overdue at Depth
Longhope’s Tamar class lifeboat Helen Comrie was called on 11 August to help search for a missing diver after his support vessel reported him overdue.
The lifeboat’s Deputy Second Coxswain took command of the dive boat...
Category: Articles
With Almost a Mile of Shelving, 3,500 Items and 90,000 Orders a Year to Process It Doesn 't Pay to Lose Track of Anything…
With almost a mile of shelving, 3,500 items and 90,000 orders a year to process it doesn 't pay to lose track of anything…. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Special Gifts to the Royal National Life-boat Institution for the Purchase of the following Life-boats
Special Gifts for the Pwehase of the following Life-boats ;- Hornsea, Yorkshire.
Skerries, Co. .Dublin .
Aberystwyth. .
Walmer Seaton Carew . . .
Jfraserburgh . . . .<...
Category: Donations
Lifeboats at war
75 years ago the British Navy attempted an audacious wartime operation. It would change the course of the Second World War – and challenge our lifeboats to tackle a very different kind of...
Category: Articles
A Dangerous Launch at Gourdon
ON 17th December, 1938, a S.E. by E. gale was blowing at Gourdon, Kincardineshire, with, flurries of sleet.
An extremely heavy sea was running, and was breaking heavily far outside the harbour. Half an hour after midday a...
Category: Services
Obituaries
Peggy Bibby-Cheshire MBE - Great Yarmouth and Corleston guild President and Honorary Life Governor Simon Campbell - former Yarmouth Second Coxswain James Dyer - former Teignmouth Crew Member Ernie Eves - former Scarborough Crew Member Peter...
Category: Obituaries
Inshore Lifeboat Services December 1977 January and February 1978
Aberdovey, Gwynedd January 10.
Arbroath, Angus January 4.
Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland December 10.
Blackpool, (1)1171, Lancashire February 19.
Blackpool, (D528),...
Category: Services