LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Yes I'D Do It All Again By Rosemarie Ide
IT WAS ONE of those glorious days. A day to be taken out and inspected and admired now and then in years to come.
It would make one feel warm and good all over again. A glad-to-be-alive day.
The sun was...
Category: Articles
Manx Steamer Ben Veg Meeting a Force 8 Gale As She Left Harbour In January 1966 at Times During This Winter's Gales Seas Were Breaking Over Road and Jetties
. . . and Manx steamer Ben Veg meeting a force 8 gale as she left harbour in January 1966. At times during this winter's gales, seas were breaking over road and jetties right up to the head of the inner... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Maldon and District Branch Made a Collection Down the River Blackwater on Its Flag Day Last July D H Purnews Gaff Cutter Tamarisk Backed Up By Maldon Little Ship Club
Maldon and District branch made a collection down the River Blackwater on its flag day last July. D. H.PurneWs gaff cutter Tamarisk, backed up by Maldon Little Ship Club guard boat, motored down as far as St Lawrence Bay approaching all... - View image in PDF
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Lifeboat Services
North Western Division MFV on lee shore AT 2350 ON JUNE 8, 1974, Edwin B.
Brown, an ILB crew member at New Brighton, Merseyside, was told that a fishing boat appeared to be aground on a lee shore in Rock Channel. He...
Category: Services
Fred Olsen Fund Third Lifeboat
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines present the check for f 76.250-tfrom L to Rt Wendy Hooper-Greenhill.
Fred. Olsen publicity manager: Poppy Bell, passenger; and Howard Bell, passenger and RNLI Eastern region liason... - View image in PDF
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ILB launches on service during the months December, 1972 January and February, 1973
Atlantic College, Glamorganshire January 21.
Beaumaris, Anglesey December 26 and February 4.
Broughty Ferry, Angus January 3 and February 15.
Conway, Caernarvonshire December 24.
Category: Services
Rye Harbour Station Closed In 1928 After the Loss of Mary Stanford and Her Whole Crew of 17 Was Re-Established As An Ilb Station In 1966
Rye Harbour station, closed in 1928 after the loss of Mary Stanford and her whole crew of 17, was re-established as an ILB station in 1966.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Eye for Detail In Lifeboat Design
LOOKING AT a lifeboat when housed, perhaps the first design detail to catch the eye is the propeller and its tunnel.
Each of the twin propellers is housed in a tunnel built into the stern, the principal aims being shallow...
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Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
The annual meeting of the Committee of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund was held on the 9th ult., and was presided over by Mr. H. HAINES, of the House of Lords. The Report, which was read by Mr. CHARLES DIBDIN, the honorary secre- tary,...
Category: Meetings
A Dinghy (1)
DIFFICULT RESCUE FROM ROCK THE Pwllheli life-boat and the Abersoch ILB, stationed on the Caernarvonshire coast, answered a call on 25th June, 1972, when two men in a motor boat were reported overdue.
The search started when...