LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
And the Winners Are
Mr David Scott, Volvo dealer development team leader Scotland, clutches the winning ticket for the Scottish grand draw which took place on 6 November 1996. Mrs Heather Dixon of Lochgilphead scooped the first prize - a brand new Volvo car.<... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lady Lundy
TOWED IN At 8.28 a.m. on i6th April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor cruiser Lady Lundy had called for assistance by radiotelephony through North Foreland radio station. She was approximately four miles...
(Top) the relief Tyne class lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher dominates the area around the RNLI stand.
(Top) The relief Tyne class lifeboat Owen and Ann Aisher dominates the area around the RNLI stand. The wooden slipway and 'boathouse' can be seen in the background. - View image in PDF
Photo Mike Anker, Take 2. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Andy
Swanage, Dorset.—At about 2.50 P.M.
on the 17th July, 1938, the St.
Albans Head coastguard reported that a cabin cruiser two or three miles S.E.
of the Head was making signals of distress...
Members of Campaign for Real Ale
Members Of Campaign For Real Ale. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Smack A.J. W., of Rye
Kessingland.
On the night of the 11th December, with a gale blowing and a very heavy sea, the Kessingland Life-boat was called out to the rescue of a sailing smack, the A.J. W., of Rye, which had stranded on the Newcombe...
New Name, Same Aim for Retired Watson
City of Bristol lies in the docks of her namesake city after her journey from Poole by low-loader. She will spend two years promoting water safety and raising funds for the RNLI.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lady Daphne
The Christmas Gales.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...
Lady Cable
Torbay, Devon.—At 6.24 on the even- ing of the 24th of September, 1955, the Brixham coastguard telephoned that a motor boat had burnt a smoke flare half a mile north-east of Berry Head.
At 6.40 the life-boat George Shee put...
Lady Elizabeth
Margate, Kent.—At 4.50 on the after- noon of the 18th of May, 1956, the coastguard telephoned to say that the police had reported that a dinghy had capsized and that two boys were in the water half a mile off Minnis Bay. At 5.1 the life-boat...