LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Blue Funnel Vessel Ajax
At 5.46 p.m. on 5th March, 1967, news was received that the Holyhead pilot boat had broken down and required assistance.
The life-boat Lady Jane and Martha Ryland, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 6...
Below Left: Valentia Boathouse
Below left: Valentia boathouse. completed in 1995. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Miniature Arun:
Miniature Arun: this model of Humber lifeboat, City of Bradford IV, took its creator, Brian Sumner, a winter of long nights to complete.
The hull is carved from solid spruce and the rest is made from plywood and anything... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of e, life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (Tmmimmn 28 Ibi., minimum 25 Ibs.) to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support...
Category: Articles
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt t'l are — ; ft- .-,:r X. 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (maximum 28 Ibs., 1...
Category: Articles
Percy Garon MC GM : Honorary Secretary of Southend-On-Sea Lifeboat Station from 1952-1975
THE LIFEBOAT SERVICE, fire brigade, his family, Southend, the Thames . . .
they are all as much a part of Percy Garon as he is of them; nor would he have it otherwise. Ask him about his life, and he will tell you about the...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Baron Douglas, the S.S. Korenica and Rumania (1)
Hastings, and Eastbourne, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At three o'clock in the morning of the 14th of June, 1952, the S.S. Baron Douglas, of Ardrossan, bound for London from Macoris with a cargo of sugar, wirelessed that she had been...
New Life-Boats Named In Norfolk and Devon
HER ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCESS MARINA, DUCHESS OF KENT, the President of the Institution, named the new Sheringham life-boat The Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows at a ceremony at Shering- ham on the 15th June, 1962. The bulk of the money for the...
Category: Inaugurations
Below; Poole's Waveney Augustine Courtauld
Below; Poole's Waveney Augustine Courtauld sails into the sunset in August 1980.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs