LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
[WE resume our Reports, which bad been unavoidably postponed, of the Services of the Life-boats of the Institution.] TENET, :SOUTH WALES.—On the 27th October, 1867, during a strong gale of wind, the Florence life-boat put off, in reply to...
Category: Services
Five Men Rescued from a Yacht
AT 1.30 on the afternoon of the 3rd of July, 1955, the honorary secretary of the Lytham-St. Anne's station, Mr. J.
Kennedy, was told by the Formby coastguard that a yacht was at anchor one mile north of Southport...
Category: Services
Parsons Engineering Co. Ltd
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The PARSONS 'PORBEAGLE' is a 4-cylinder water-cooled...
Category: Advertisement
Some Ways of Raising Money
Mr John Skellorn, of the Gravesend Sailing Club, gives a tip about raising money by paperboat racing.
He writes: 'As far as we know, only Belfleet yacht club and ourselves have organised paperboat racing. It started...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
Three fishermen saved with just minutes to spare A;L long service in a severe gale and heavy, broken seas has earned Achill Island's Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic, Brian Patten, the RNLI's Silver Medal. The remainder of the crew will...
Category: Services
St. Georges
RED FLARES At 3.15 p.m. on nth Janurary, 1966 the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the local trawler St. Georges was burning red flares just inside the West Gorton buoy. The life-boat Frederick Edward Crick responded at 3.30...
The Emerald Star Line fleet at Carrick-on-Shannon where they are life-saving conscious. by courtesy of Kearneys Photographic
The Emerald Star Line fleet at Carrick-on- Shannon where they are life-saving conscious. - View image in PDF
by courtesy of Kearneys Photographic. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Dutch "Brandaris" and the English "William & Kate Johnston," Lying at the Speaker's Steps
The Dutch "Brandaris" and The English "William & Kate Johnston" Lying at The Speaker's Steps. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Yulan
It is not often that loss of life has to be recorded in con- nection with shipwrecks on the Good- win Sands, so well organised is the Life- boat service in the neighbourhood, but unfortunately the loss of the ketch Yulan, of Harwich, during...
Lifeboat Services
SURVIVORS WALK TO LIFEBOAT Fourteen saved from yacht aground on the Goodwin Sands Both of Ramsgate's lifeboats were called to an incident on the Goodwin Sands on 13 November 1994, when a French sail-training vessel went aground in a WSW...
Category: Services