LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Left: Don Endures a Haircut
Left: Don endures the hair-raising event and, above, as he used to look.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A French Air Liner
Dover and Dungeness, Kent.—9th May. A French air liner was reported several hours overdue and a prolonged search was made, but, unfortunately, without result. The liner was the F—A M P H and was lost with all the six people on board.—Rewards...
Boy Arthur and Ocean Vanguard
Amble, Northumberland.—The motor life-boat Frederick and Emma was launched at half past eleven in the morning of the 2nd of February, 1948, as two fishing cobles were overdue and a moderate west-south-west gale was blowing...
The Barry Dock Glamorganshire 44-Foot Steel Life-Boat Arthur and Blanche Harris Alongside the Grounded MV Amalia at Nash Point on 21st May 1969 the Vessel Had Gr
The Barry Dock, Glamorganshire, 44-foot steel life-boat Arthur and Blanche Harris alongside the grounded m.v. Amalia at Nash Point on 21st May, 1969. - View image in PDF
The vessel had grounded in fog.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Inventions
THE FAREHAM LIFE-BOAT.—A novel description of life-boat, to which the above appellation is given by its designer, has been recently patented.
It is the invention of the Rev. E. L. BERTHON, M.A., of Fareham, and is...
Category: Articles
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Stranded swimmer R LIFEBOAT CREW were paged at 1428 on Saturday, August 8. 1987, following a report of a man having been cut off by the tide below Hunt Cliff, Saltburn.
The station's Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable...
The Bridlington Life-Boat William Henry and Mary King Which Is a 37-Foot Oakley Being Launched In a Blizzard on 27Th December 1968 When She Was Called Out to Escort T
The Bridlington life-boat William Henry and Mary King, which is a 37-foot Oakley, being launched in a blizzard on 27th December, 1968, when she was called out to escort three fishing boats into harbour. She was built in 1964.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Naming Ceremonies. Cadgwith, Holy Island, Pwllheli and the Mumbles
Four naming ceremonies of motor life-boats took place in the summer of 1947 at Cadgwith, Holy Island, Pwllheli and The Mumbles.
Cadgwith The Cadgwith life-boat is of the 35-feet 6-inches, light, self-righting type, weighing...
Category: Inaugurations
John Chapman: Honorary Secretary of the Civil Service and Post Office Lifeboat Fund
'A one-eyed, cantankerous and troublesome fellow'1: thus, leaning back in his chair, pipe in hand and smiling happily, does John Chapman describe himself.
But the smile belies the words, for it is the smile of a man...
Category: Articles
Iris
— The pleasure yacht Iris, of Chester, was seen to be in a dangerous position in the breakers near Portmadoc Bar on the loth August. The Coxswain launched the Life-boat and proceeded to the assistance of the crew. He asked them if they...