LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Knockdown from Page 86
from page 86 in the boat, that is the main thing. To get them back out of the water is the problem. If you keep them in the boat you will not have to pick men out of the water in seas that are still liable to capsize you. The crew should be...
Category: Articles
A Picture Taken from the Bow of 70,001 When She Went to the Assistance of the Danish Ship Marilene on 24th January, 1967
A picture taken from the bow of 70,001 when she went to the assistance of the Danish ship Marilene on 24th January, 1967.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The East Goodwin Lightship and a Schooner
On the 30th March, at 5.15 A.M., in reply to signals of distress the Life-boat Bradford and steam-tug Vulcan proceeded to the East Goodwin Lightship and found that she had been run into by a schooner, and had one of the vessel's crew on...
Three Stations Celebrate Centenaries
THE hundredth anniversary of the foundation of life-boat stations at Thurso and Whitehills in Scotland, and at Portrush in Northern Ireland, have recently been celebrated.
At Thurso Lord Saltoun, a member of the Committee...
Category: Articles
A Hard Shoulder to Lean On.
A hard shoulder to lean on.
Motorists on the M25 had something to distract them from the inevitable traffic jams in July when the ex- Courtmacsherry Solent class lifeboat R.
Hope Roberts made a passage to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Past and Present
125 years ago From The Life-Boat of 1870 At a time when the RNU'sinamie from legacies is under scrutiny it is interesting to look back to the Institution's earliest days ami the wn / in which lifeboat* were...
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At Wells Norfolk a Road Has Been Named After Coxswain Theodore Neilsen Who Was a Famous Wartime Coxswain In 1942 for Example He Searched a Sinking Lancaste
by courtesy of the 'Eastern Daily Press' At Wells, Norfolk, a road has been named after Coxswain Theodore Neilsen who was a famous wartime coxswain.
In 1942, for example, he searched a sinking Lancaster bomber for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sea Conditions During the Service Can Be Judged from This Photo - That Is a 500Ft. 9.000 Ton Vessel Almost Obscured By the Breaker...
The sea conditions during the service can be judged from this photo - that is a 500ft. 9.000 ton vessel almost obscured by the breaker…. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Eros and the Escort Vessel Challenger
NOVEMBER 3RD. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. At 7 P.M. a message was received from the Kinnaird Head coastguard that a wireless call for help had been received by way of the R.A.F. Station at Rosehearty. The life-boat crew were assembled and...
Greek Ship Aground In Hurricane
AT 9.25 on 25th October, 1967, Valentia radio informed the assistant honorary secretary of the Galway Bay life-boat station that the Greek motor vessel Razani was aground three quarters of a mile east south east of Black Head, Galway Bay....
Category: Services