LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Meet the Team
Some of the members of the Llandudno lifeboat team, pictured in the lifeboathouse. From left to right: Gordon Short (Tractor Driver), Ian McNeil, Meurig Davies (Coxswain), Glyn David Jones (Head Launcher), Hugh Hughes, Adrian Dunkley... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Armies Help
At Scarborough recently, when the life-boat was called to the rescue of an airman, an army vehicle gave valuable help by towing her across heavy sand and into the sea. At Newcastle, Co. Down, when only 28 launchers could be mustered,...
Category: Articles
Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, Jan. 1, 1857. THOMAS CHAP- MAN, Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Dependence, Glanfeadon & The Douduard
— On the 18th March, during a whole N.E. gale, with snow showers, signals of distress were observed from three schooners at anchor in St. Tudwall's Roads. The crew of the Life-boat Oldham were at once summoned and the Life-boat...
The Quorn Fine Art Co
LIMITED EDITION SIGNED PRINTS COMMEMORATING A GREAT BRITISH TRADITION H.M.S. ARK ROYAL AND MORNING CLOUD ery few limited edition prints have received as much praise aroused such interest as these splendid examples of man's endurance...
Category: Advertisement
From the Director
It is a relief to be writing my annual message for The Lifeboat as a welcome alternative to sending letters to the editors of the Sunday Telegraph and Private Eye! Many of you will have read the articles in those publications and will share...
Category: Articles
The Merchant Vessel Galina
Fortitude off Falmouth Without power, Merchant Vessel Calina found herself at the mercy of a violent storm and drifting dangerously close to shore. With the nearest Coastguard Emergency Towing Vessel (ETV) several hours away, RNLI crew were...
Notes of the Quarter
THE 37-feet life-boat, which is described in detail on page 91, adds one more development to an impressive list of major improvements in the design and construction of life-boats and life-saving equipment in the past six or seven...
Category: Articles
Swordfish
Humber, Yorkshire. At 4.45 on the morning of the 24th of June, 1958, the Spurn Point coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that the S.S.
Rota had signalled by morse lamp that a small yacht off Bull Sands needed...
The New Eddystone Lighthouse
ON the 21st June last the Corporation of the Trinity House had arranged that the Foundation Stone of the new Eddystone Lighthouse should be laid—H.E.H. the PRINCE OF WALES having promised to perform the ceremony. Admiral H.R.H. the DUKE OF...
Category: Articles