LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Largest Tricycle In the World
The largest tricycle in the world, fixed securely to the Arndale Centre floor, was used by Poole Round Table to raise money for a replacement lifeboat under 10 metres for the local lifeboat station.
Poole lifeboat crew,... - View image in PDF
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Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Matthew Lethbridge, of St.
Mary's, in the Scilly Isles. He has been an officer of the life-boat for 32 years. He served as second coxswain from 1920 to 1925, and since 1925...
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The Admiralty Tug Amsterdam
MARCH 8TH. - REDCAR, YORKSHIRE.
At 9.8 P.M. the coastguard reported a ship ashore on Redcar Rocks, N.E. of the pier.
A little later it was learned that the vessel was the Admiralty tug Amsterdam. The...
The Sailing Boat Genevieve
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 16th of August, 1955, the Formby coastguard reported that the port radar station had stated that a man was swimming seawards off Alexandra dock. At 1.40 the life-boat Norman B. Cotiett...
The Blackwater Lightvessel
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. — The Commissioners of Irish Lights asked if the life-boat would take relief men to the Blackwater Lightvessel and the Tuskar Rock Lighthouse as the Commissioners' boats were not available. At 12.30 on the...
The H.M.S Squirell
—• At 5.30 P.M.
on the 24th May information was received by telephone from the Chief Officer of Coastguard at Par that a man in an open boat was in difficulties, and driving fast out to sea, about nine miles from Polkerris....
The Mine-Layer Medea
Padstow, Cornwall. — 23rd January, 1939. In the early morning the No. 1 motor life-boat Princess Mary went out to the help of the mine-layer Medea.
The life-boat was buried by a sea which washed away nearly all the gear on...
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7i feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-cases, which give extra buoyancy...
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The Austrian Schooner Nicolo
On the night of the 31st March, during a gale of wind from the N.W., the Princess of Wales life-boat went off in reply to a signal from the Austrian schooner Nicolo, which had stranded near Penial, Anglesea, to the assistance of some boatmen...
Over the Top
Over the top Daredevil gran, Barbara Page, threw caution to the wind in August by abseiling 325ft down Blackpool's fastest rollercoaster and raising over £1,000 for the lifeboats in the process.
Barbara, a member... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs