LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Inshore Lifeboat Services September October and November 1976
Aberdovcy, Gwynedd September 12, 27 and November 11.
Abersoch, Gwynedd September 15 and November 14.
Aberystwyth, Dyfed September 5 and October 27.
Arbroath, Tayside October 26.Atlantic...
Category: Services
Offshore Lifeboat Services June July and August 1977
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire July 3.
Aith, Shetland July 13 and August 5.
Aldeburgh, Suffolk June 4, 7, July 8, 19 and August 17.
Amble, Northumberland June 20, July 24, August 4, 14 and...
Category: Services
Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part IV: Deck and Superstructure
FROM PREVIOUS PARTS of this article it will be remembered that, as the fast slipway boat (FSB) is made of steel, her hull is built upside-down until plating is complete. Here (Figs I and 2) the second of the two prototype FSBs building at...
Category: Articles
These Four Men from Bridport and West Dorset Golf Club
These four men from Bridport and West Dorset Golf Club set off at 5 o'clock in the morning to play 100 holes of sponsored golf for the RNLI. Their marathon ended at 7 o'clock in the evening after the completion of six rounds—no less... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Ruby and Curlew
Ramsgate, Kent - At 7.13 p.m. on 26th October, 1969, news was received that red flares had been sighted off Broadstairs bay. At 7.30 the life-boat Michael and Lily Davis slipped her moorings in a slight south westerly wind with a...
Offshore Lifeboat Service December 1979 January and February 1980
February, 1980 Aldeburgh, Suffolk January 25 Amble, Northumberland January 25 Anstruther, Fife January 31 Arranmore, Co. Donegal December 17, 18, 28, 29 and January 25 Barrow, Cumbria January 13 Barry Dock, South Glamorgan February 17...
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Rollo of Braye, Solveig and French Yacht Pupas
Long night at sea in poor visibility Alderney South West Division Alderney's Waveney class lifeboatLoww Marches! of Round Table spent seven hours at sea on the night of 8/9 July attending four separate calls in poor visibility, which was...
Below Wet and Windswept After Retrieving the Dummy the Crew
Below Wet and windswept after retrieving the dummy the crew (left to right) Alan Woods, Tommy Cocking, Eric Ward and Charlie Hodson find time for a debrief as the lifeboat heads back to the training centre.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Silver Line, Rosamund, Cutty Sark and Brighter Hope
JUNE 13TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
During the morning a light northerly breeze was blowing, but there was a strong swell breaking about four hundred yards outside the harbour entrance, and a fishing coble, attempting to make...
H.M. Trawler Flotta and H.M. Trawler Filey Bay
NOVEMBER 6TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At about 9.15 in the evening the naval officer in charge asked, through the coastguard, for the life-boat to be ready to launch to the help of H.M. Trawler Flotta.