LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
I Was Rescued By The Padstow Lifeboat In 1968 [pictured]
I was rescued by the Padstow lifeboat in 1968 [pictured] when I was 20, together with five members of my extended family . - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Decks Awash In a Near Gale Padstow's 48' 6" Oakley Lifeboat James and Catherine Macfarlane Tows Home the 90' Beam Fishing Trawler Elizabeth Ann Webster Which Ha
Decks awash in a near gale, Padstow's 48' 6" Oakley lifeboat, James and Catherine Macfarlane, tows home the 90' beam fishing trawler, Elizabeth Ann Webster, which had broken down off Tintagel Head. Photograph by courtesy of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SOUTHWOLD, SUFFOLK. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently provided a new sailing-boat of the improved Norfolk and Suffolk type for South wold, in the place of a boat stationed there many years since. It is 44 feet long and...
Category: Articles
Books
The history of the Lerwick lifeboats The history of the New Quay lifeboats The history of Barrow lifeboats By Jeff Morris Price: £3.50 each (including postage and packaging) The honorary archivist of the Lifeboat Enthusiasts'...
Category: Articles
The Encroachment of the Sea
IT is only to be expected that the sub- ject of the erosion of the coast, which in other words means the encroachment of the sea, should be one of considerable interest to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION. The nature of Life- boat...
Category: Articles
Book Reviews
• Grahame Farr's The Tubular Lifeboats 1850-1939 is in many ways the most interesting of his papers on lifeboat history. It is available from the author at 98 Combe Avenue, Portishead, Bristol BS20 9JX, price 60p including posting and...
Category: Articles
Lionel Lukin - Lifeboat Inventor By Frank Martin
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the patenting of Lionel Lukin's 'unimmergible boat', the first craft ever to be designed specifically for saving human life at sea. Frank Martin, honorary treasurer of the Hythe branch of...
Category: Articles
A Silver Medal Service By the Newburgh Life-Boat
A VERY fine service in which the crew of the Newburgh Life-boat and men of H.M. Destroyers Vampire and Vendetta played a gallant part, took place on October 19th, the anniversary of the wreck of the Hopelyn last year, off Belhelvie, near...
Category: Medals
A Twelve-Feet Dinghy
Minehead, Somerset. — At 7.50 in the evening of the 23rd of May, 1952, the police reported that a thirteen- year-old boy, who had run away from his home at Uphill and had taken a twelve-feet dinghy, had been seen by an aeroplane between six...
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