LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Portsmouth Lifeboat Named
Blustery showers and dark skies could not spoil the enjoyment of all present at Portsmouth lifeboat station on 26 April 1997 when their new Atlantic 75 lifeboat was named CSMA-Fhzzell, by Mr Colin Frizzell, past chairman of the Frizzell... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Great Rail Journeys
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Category: Advertisement
Feature: Safety at the Seaside
Imagine you're on a beach in the summer sun. Nearby there's a family enjoying a day out. One child is building a huge sandcastle and another is playing in the water with friends.
Their laughter and excited shouts...
Category: Articles
The New York Life-Saving Benevolent Association
IT can scarcely fail to be interesting to such of our readers as take an interest in the subject of saving lives from shipwreck to know what is being done in furtherance of that humane object in other countries than our own. To learn how far...
Category: Articles
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Man in water THE MUMBLES COASTGUARD telephoned the honorary secretary of Atlantic College, St Donat's Castle, lifeboat station at 0948 on Sunday May 24, 1981, to inform him that a man had been reported in the water off Witches Point,...
The S.S. Circassian Prince (1)
PALLING AND WINTERTON, NORFOLK.— Daring a strong breeze from W.N.W., a heavy sea, and thick weather on the night of the 21st March, the Palling No. 2 Life-boat British Workman and the Winterton No. 2 Life-boat Margaret proceeded to the...
Tijl Uilenspiegel (2)
Six lifeboats in search for missing Belgian trawler The new Tyne class lifeboat at Douglas, Isle of Man, had a testing time during her first service, in a search for a missing Belgian trawler which lasted for 11 hours in Force 7 winds and...
The End of Steam. Record of the Six Steam Life-Boats and the "Helen Peele" of Padstow
LAST spring, when the Motor Life-boat Princess Mary was sent to Padstow, the larger of the two Pulling and Sailing Life-boats at that station, and the Steam Tug, Helen Peele, were withdrawn from service, while the smaller Life-boat will,...
Category: Articles
Twenty-Two's Watch
LIFE-BOATMEN all over the country at one time or another have read about, or even participated in, a rescue carried out by an R.A.F. helicopter.
From time to time, too, helicopters make the headlines, not for some dramatic...
Category: Articles
Ebor
HARWICH.—On the 19th February a telephone message was received from the Gunfleet Lighthouse and signals were shown by the Sunk Light-vessel. At 8.45 A.M. the Life-boat Springwell put out, and was towed by the steam-tug Harwich to the Sunk,...