LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Airy Fairy, Billy Whizz and Broadaxe
Three yachts saved PARTICIPANTS IN THE Isle of Man's round the island race in May found themselves contending with a south-south-westerly gale and very high seas. It was at 2240 on the night of Sunday May 25, 1986, when the honorary...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 16th September, 1921.
Sir GODFREY BAKING, Bt., in the Chair.
Reported the death of Admiral of the Fleet, The Marquis of Milford Haven, P.C., G.C.B., G.C.V.O., K.C.M.G., and of Major Sir E. F....
Category: Committee
Nauticalia
* A Ship's 'Wheel * * for only £19.80!* Nothing conjures up visions of the sea more vividly than a traditional ship's helm.
Nauticalia wheels are authentic re-creations, craftsman made, and extremely good...
Category: Advertisement
Port Isaac’s Fisherman’s Friends
Port Isaac’s Fisherman’s Friends
Review by Carol Waterkeyn
Salty sea-dogs John, Jeremy and Julian Brown, Trevor Grills, John Lethbridge, Billy Hawkins, Peter Rowe, John McDonnell and Jon Cleave form the current...
Category: Articles
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Torbay's Arun class lifeboat Edward Bridges had to approach within inches of a cliff on 9 December 1988 to rescue a climber, who had fallen some 20ft into the sea at Berry Head.
The accident happened at a climb known as...
The Firm and Triple A.
Short but effective service by D class saves fiveThe RNLFs Chief of Operations has written to the crew of Burry Port's D class inflatable lifeboatcommending the quick, positive thinking by the helmsman, good seamanship and boat handling...
The French Life-Boat Society
The New Motor Life-boat for Calais.
LIKE the Institution, La Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages publishes in its second half-yearly Report for 1929 a preliminary survey of the activities and progress during that...
Category: Articles
Harbour Life-Boats and the Life-Preserving Apparatus
WE are desirous of calling the attention of Commissioners of harbours, docks, and piers to the following clauses of an Act of Parliament, relative to the providing of life-boats and the life-preserving apparatus by the undertakers of such...
Category: Articles
Gull
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—In the morning of the 8th of August, 1948, the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn rescued six lives from the yacht Gull, off Newhaven.-—-Rewards, silver second-service clasp to the coxswain, vellums to...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To THOMAS PENGILLY, on his retirement, after serving 27 years as Coxswain and previously 10 years as Second Coxswain of the Clovelly Life-boat, a Certificate of Ser- vice and a Pension.
To JOHN W. PLUMMER, on his...
Category: Awards