LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Catherine May
Sunderland, Co. Durham. At 10.30 on the morning of the 3rd December, 1961, the life-boat Edward and Isabella Irwin was launched for a routine exercise in a heavy swell. As she was leaving the harbour the coxswain saw the small motor boat...
Lifeboat Services
ON THURSDAY April 8, the honorary secretary of St Ives lifeboat station was down at the boathouse in the late afternoon when, at 1628, he saw a 16ft sailing dinghy leave harbour with two young men and two youths on...
Category: Services
Nemo II
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.24 on the evening of the 9th of June, 1954, the coastguard telephoned that the owner of the local motor pleasure boat Nemo II had reported that his boat had broken from her moorings and was drifting towards the...
Four Sons, Sarah Elizabeth and Betty II
At 7.30 A.M.
on the 5th November the local fishing cobles Four Sons, Sarah Elizabeth and Betty II put out to the fishing grounds During the morning the wind backed into the north-east and increased to a strong gale, with...
A Canberra Aircraft (1)
Blackpool and Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire ; Llandudno, Caernarvon- shire ; and Rhyl, Flintshire. Between three o'clock and 3.15 on the afternoon of the 9th of October, 1958, the hon- orary secretaries and coxswains of the life-boat...
A New Medal for Gallantry. Bust of the Institution's Founder
Obverse.—Bust of Lieut.-Col. Sir William Hillary, Bt., Founder of the Institution, by Mr. Allan G. Wyon, F.R.B.S. Double Legend: "Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded 1824.
Sir William Hillary, Bt." "... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Joan Manning District Organising Secretary (Midland Shires) Was at Worcester to Meet Two Other Adventurers Adam Chinery and Graham Pocock As They Reached the En
Joan Manning, district organising secretary (Midland Shires), was at Worcester to meet two other adventurers, Adam Chinery and Graham Pocock, as they reached the end of a 100-mile sponsored canoe paddle from Welshpool. Adam and Graham,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Rescue By Breeches Buoy
The Jacob George ashore at Eyemouth, Berwickshire, 4th' February, 1936. (See page 78).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Galilee, Progress,Endeavour, Noel II, Provider and Venus
Whitby, Yorkshire.—Several fishing boats went to sea early on the morning of the 28th May. The weather got bad and some of them came in. By 8 A.M.
a heavy sea was rolling in and breaking at the harbour entrance, and a...
Arun Development
SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES gathering momentum over the past 30 years have pushed back the horizon of the seafaring man.
High-powered marine diesel engines, allied with modern hull design, have given him speed with reliability...
Category: Articles