LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
THREE LIFEBOAT STATIONS have recently been re-opened. One of these is Fraserburgh, the station which suffered two major disasters in less than 20 years and from which the lifeboat was withdrawn after the 1970 disaster.
The...
Category: Articles
Rochfort
Shortly before midnight, on the 3rd April, in- formation reached the Coxswain of the Life-boat Eliza Avins, that a steamer was ashore on the west end of Plymouth Breakwater. The weather was fine, but it was considered advisable to send the...
Special Gifts to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution for the Purchase of the Following Life-Boats
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Category: Donations
Wrist Watch Awarded to Fourteen-Year-Old Boy
About eleven o'clock on the morning of the 10th June, 1962, Harry Christopher Duffy, a fourteen-year-old boy, heard two girl swimmers who were in the sea off Lake Pier, Hamworthy, Dorset, shouting. He was canoeing with other members of...
Category: Awards
Hilton
LLL L O N D O N BOAT SHOW 6"- 15* JANUARY 2006 at EXCEL show and stay with Hilton'.
/Wafce sure you are part of rte action from 6th- 15th January 2006 at London's Docklands. It's indoors, with an awesome...
Category: Advertisement
June Kilgour
The barque Jane Kilgour, of London, went on the Cross Sands, off this coast, on the 22nd Feb- ruary, and the Caister beachmen proceeded to her in one of their yawls, and endea- voured, by cutting away the masts, to get her off the sands....
In Portsmouth Dockyard on 23rd June, 1966, the Second Oakley 48-Foot 6-Inch Life-Boat Was Capsized Twice for the Benefit of the Press and a Large Unofficial Gathering of Naval and Civilian Dockyard Personnel
In Portsmouth dockyard on 23rd June, 1966, the second Oakley 48-foot 6-inch lifeboat was capsized twice for the benefit of the Press and a large unofficial gathering of naval and civilian dockyard personnel. Here she is shown righting and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CAISTER, NORFOLK. — Signal - rockets were fired by the Wold Light-vessel on the morning of the 31st May last. The weather was squally, a strong breeze blowing from the KN.W., and there was a heavy sea. At 3 o'clock the No. 2 Life- boat...
Category: Services
A Royal Air Force Launch
.—On the 21st Septem- ber one of two Royal Air Force launches which were on passage from Calshot to Felixstowe had trouble with her engine about two miles S.W. of the Admiralty Pier, Dover. The other launch made for Dover and telephoned to...
The Last of the "Malvoisin."
IN the last issue of The Lifeboat we gave an account of the Life-boat services to the British ketch, Malvoisin, which, built in 1883, was wrecked last May off Calais and broke up on the rocks.
To the three services to this...
Category: Services