LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fleetwood:
Fleetwood: The D class inflatable lifeboat (above), given in memory of the late Miss Constance Mary Hardman, former head teacher of High Bank Nursery School, Pendlebury, by her sister Mrs P. T. Metcalfe and by the staff and pupils from the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE Arun 54-03 rounding Portland Bill on passage to Plymouth: the third boat in her class, she is the 37th lifeboat donated by the Civil Service and Post Office Fund. Her hull is cold moulded wood, with a double bottom and wing... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mermaid Marine Engines Ltd
R.N.L.I. rely on Mermaid T THE NEW ROTHER CLASS LIFEBOATS, as those already in service like the Margate Lifeboat shown here, rely on Mermaid diesel engines for continuous trouble-free power in every emergency. You need reliability too, so...
Category: Advertisement
A 'Mayday' Fair Held at the Palmer Home Sarisbury Green Fareham In August Brought In £600 for the Rnli It Was the Idea of Teenagers Stuart Palmer and David Peagram Who With the Help Of
A 'Mayday' Fair held at the Palmer home, Sarisbury Green, Fareham, in August brought in £600 for the RNLI. It was the idea of teenagers Stuart Palmer and David Peagram who, with the help of Stuart's sister. Carmen, set up a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Obituaries
With deep regret we record the following deaths.
NOVEMBER 1987: Miss F. E. H Shackleton, JP, vice president of Rochdale ladies' guild since 1959.
She was honorary secretary of the guild from 1947 to...
Category: Obituaries
Grace Darling
Grace Darling was the last of the 21 Liverpool class lifeboats to be built and spent almost half her service life at North Sunderland and at Youghal in Ireland. Her coxswain at North Sunderland was awarded a Bronze... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Holiday Spirit
A local club’s sailing session made it a busy Valentine’s day for Aberystwyth lifeboat crew. The B class Spirit of Friendship was launched when a dinghy was seen capsizing several times, with her two-person crew having more and more trouble...
Category: Articles
Fishing community
This is the scene that greeted the crew of Exmouth’s relief Mersey class lifeboat Fisherman's Friend, responding to a shout on 26 November 2008. The fishing vessel Aleyna had overturned 26 miles south east of the Devon town and her crew...
Category: Articles
Man and cat saved in gale
Engine failure combined with force 7–8 winds to put a sailor and his cat Sukie in danger 4 miles off the Mull of Kintyre on 3 September. Campbeltown’s Severn class lifeboat, Ernest and Mary Shaw, launched to help. The 7m yacht was rolling...
Category: Articles
Tangled in Nets
On 3 March, 2 days into the scallop fishing season, a trawler crew member suffered serious head and neck injuries while trying to operate lifting gear.
New Quay’s Mersey class lifeboat crew were called out to prepare him...
Category: Articles