LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wessex Har Mk 5 from Hms Daedalus Lee-On-The-Solent Piloted By Lt Kay Colborne on Exercise With Portsmouth (Langstone Harbour) Atlantic 21 Guide Friendshi
Wessex HAR Mk 5 from HMS Daedalus, Lee-on-the-Solent, piloted by Lt Kay Colborne on exercise with Portsmouth (Langstone Harbour) Atlantic 21 Guide Friendship II. In command of the ILB is Helmsman Adrian West, and with him are Crew Members... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hawa-Dilli
STEAMER PASSENGER SPOTS FLARES Rhyl, Flintshire. At 7.25 on the evening of the 12th June, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a passenger on board the steamer St. Tudno of Liverpool had reported seeing red flares six to...
The Prince of Wales Presenting Medals at the Centenary Meeting
i From left to right:—Captain Sir Herbert Acton Blake, the Hon. George Colville, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Doveton Sturdee, Bt., Sir Donald MacLean. Acting Coxswain Younj (Cloughey, Co Down). Bowman James Innei (Newburgh), Coxswain John... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Awards to Coxswains and Members of Life-Boat Crews
To SIDNEY H. B. PAGE, on his retirement, after serving for 21J years as coxswain, G months as second coxswain and 1 year as bowman of the Southend-on-Sea life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, a gratuity and a retirement...
Category: Awards
Lifeboat Celebrations: Remembering the Past - Looking to the Future
Jersey centenary While visiting Jersey on Friday June 1, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, a Patron of the RNLI, attended a service of thanksgiving and blessing for St Helier lifeboat station and presented a vellum to mark the...
Category: Articles
A Sufficiency of Life-Boats In Passenger Ships a Pecuniary Question
SINCE writing the preceding article we have been again shocked by the intelligence of another of those frightful accidents at sea, which we now as regularly look for in the newspapers of the day as we do for the murders, garotte robberies,...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services from Page 12
1004 the Atlantic 21 ILB Blue Peter II launched on service with David Jones as helmsman and John Askew and Simon Dubberley as crew; the honorary medical adviser, Dr Jack Dubberley, also embarked.
The sky was overcast with a...
Category: Services
Christmas festivities in Kirkwall brought a number of generous donations for the lifeboat. Ron Spiers ofTorvhaug Enterprises set up a magnificent Christmas tree outside his inn door and raised £102.56 with a competition to guess its weight;
Christmas festivities in Kirkwall brought a number of generous donations for the lifeboat.
Ron Spiers ofTorvhaug Enterprises set up a magnificent Christmas tree outside his inn door and raised £102.56 with a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jane Mary Jane, Cornelia and Ynys Lochtyn
New Quay, Cardiganshire.—On the morning of the 15th of September, 1956, a heavy storm came up from the south-east. The majority of the fish- ing boats which were at sea had re- turned to harbour, but it was reported that the fishing...
City of Waterford
HELICOPTER AIDS RESCUE At 9.30 a.m. on i2th February, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel City of Waterford of Dublin, six miles southwest of St. Catherine's Point, was on fire and that the crew of...