ADMIRAL SIR WILLIAM SLAYTER • I would like to amplify the very brief obituary which appeared in the July issue of THE LIFE-BOAT (page 124). Bill Slayter, who had a very distinguished career in the Navy in both world wars, was a most...
Category: Correspondence
The James Stevens No 20 at Queenstown. - View image in PDF
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Peterhead's New Tyne Class Lifeboat On Her Slipway Ready For The Naming Ceremony. - View image in PDF
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Eleven rescued ON THE MORNING OF Monday, November 1, 1976, the uss Sellers, a guided missile destroyer, arrived in Jersey waters to pay a courtesy visit. It was originally intended that she should anchor in St Aubin's Bay but as the wind...
In the course of 24 hours on 28th-29th October, 1880, the Scarborough life-boat was launched five times and rescued every life in danger—28 in all. The detail is part of a painting of the scene presented to Scarborough Corporation in 1897 by...
Category: Drawings
Three saved as trawler is destroyedThe coastline west of Port Oriel, on the east coast of Ireland, is extremely wild, with treacherous rocks to catch out the unwary sailor. So when the Clogher Head lifeboat was called out to a fishing...
DID NOT REVIVE At 4.15 p.m. on 3rd September, 1964, a nurse on Inishmaan Island reported that a doctor was needed to attend to a young girl who had been rescued from the sea. It was just after high water with a smooth sea and moderate...
Cliff Rescue Training For One of the 8500 Auxiliary Coastguards. - View image in PDF
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Jpmorgan Squash Champions Pose For The Camera. - View image in PDF
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Eleven rescued ON THE MORNING OF Monday, November 1, 1976, the uss Sellers, a guided missile destroyer, arrived in Jersey waters to pay a courtesy visit. It was originally intended that she should anchor in St Aubin's Bay but as the wind...