LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboats In Action
Two saved in harbour dramaFaced with the choice of a wait offshore for eight hours in gale force conditions or reaching dry Land quickly by a risky harbour entry, which would you choose? Decision time When a crew of two undertook a maiden...
Category: Services
Success, Pilot Me and Provider A
Whitby, Yorkshire. On the morning of the 17th of February, 1958, three local fishing vessels were at sea. Later the weather deteriorated, and the vessels were informed by radio-telephone that the harbour bar was very...
Some Ways of Making Money
For the past two years, Mrs Patricia Duncan has held hunter trials in her garden in aid of the RNLI. Her daughter and gardener made the jumps—last year they even achieved a water jump, as well as different shapes and styles through the woods...
Category: Articles
Accounts of Services by Life-boats (4)
Launches 18. Lives rescued 30.
MAY 3RD. - CROMARTY. At 3 P.M. a message was received from the Seaforth Highlanders Depot at Fort George that the ferry boat Tim, running from Fort George to Chanory, with the depot band of...
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Classified Advertisements
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS FOR SALE Advertising pencils, superb ball pens, combs, brushes, each gold stamped Lifeboat name, etc., raise funds, quickly, easily. Bran Tub Toys: samples from, Northern Novelties, Bradford 2 (BD2...
Category: Advertisement
Japan: Line-Throwing Rocket Firing Exercise for Volunteer Crew Members of Nippon Suinan Kyusaikai
Japan: Line-throwing rocket firing exercise for volunteer crew members of Nippon Suinan Kyusaikai.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Awarded the Silver Medal for Gallantry: Coxswain Mechanic David Kennett Yarmouth Isle of Wight
Awarded the silver medal for gallantry: Coxswain! Mechanic David Kennett, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Above) a Carvel Built 18Ft Launch Takes Shape for the RNLI
(Above) A carvel built 18ft launch takes shape for the RNLI, and. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
First wave
It was 4 March 1824, an average Thursday lunchtime. Bishopsgate’s trendy London Tavern, renowned for its ‘dinners, wines and turtle’, was about to make lifesaving history …
The industrial...
Category: Articles
Listings
Seahorse III at Cromer The naming ceremony for the new D class lifeboat was held outside the inshore boathouse despite overcast conditions and the forecast of heavy rain. The chairman introduced John Gamble, representing the sponsors of the...
Category: Articles