LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.M. Minesweeper Guide On
OCTOBER 20TH. - WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE. At 9.30 A.M. the Banff coastguard reported distress signals three miles N.E. by N. from East Head, Portsoy, and the motor life-boat Civil Service No. 4 was launched. A W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a...
Medal for Fourteen-Year-Old Boy
AT 4.45 on the afternoon of the 18th of May, 1956, a ten-feet dinghy in which two boys aged fourteen and fifteen were sailing capsized about half a mile from the shore at Minnis Bay, near Birchington, Kent. A small boy saw the dinghy capsize...
Category: Medals
Fraserhurgh: When a Job Needs Doing By Georgette Purches
THE TOWN OF FRASERBURGH stands facing the North Sea and the Moray Firth and the rocky dangerous coast runs away south to Peterhead and Aberdeen and westwards towards Inverness. It is one of the major fishing harbours in the north east of...
Category: Articles
Inshore Lifeboat Services March April and May 1979
Aberdovey, Gwynedd March 7, 17, April 17 (twice) and May 28 Abersoch, Gwynedd March 24, April 5, 19 and 28 Atlantic College, South Glamorgan April 15 (twice), 22 (twice), May 5, 6 and 29 Bangor, Co. Down April 27, May 14 and 20 Barmouth,...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
BROUGHTY FERRY, DUNDEE. — On the 24th October, 1868, the barque Betty and Louise, of Hamburg, was stranded during a strong gale on the Cruivie Bank, near Buddon Ness. The Mary Hartley life- boat was quickly manned and launched, and succeeded...
Category: Services
(Below Left! the Bulk of the Norfolk and Suffolk Type
(Below left! The bulk of the Norfolk and Suffolk type and the small internal volume are illustrated by the WTO-built James Leath at the lifeboat collection in Chatham Dockyard.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Duchess of Kent and the Ramsgate Coxswain
The Duchess of Kent and The Ramsgate Coxswain. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Above) Fig 4: Propeller Tunnel Cants and Timbers In Place
(Above) Fig. 4: Propeller tunnel cants and timbers in place.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Ernest and Mabel With the Model Version Floating Alongside.
The Ernest and Mabel with the model version floating alongside.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Inshore Lifeboat Services June July and August 1976
Aberdovey, Gwynedd June 3, 26, 27, July 10, 11, 17, August 3, 10 (twice), 16, 17, 20, 27 and 29.
Abersoch, Gwynedd June 1,13, 30, July 21,28, August 19 (twice), 20, 27 (twice) and 28.
Aberystwth, Dyfed...
Category: Services