LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services March April and May 1986
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: May 5 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic21: March 15 and May 26 (four times) Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic21 :Mait:h29, 31 (fourtimes), April 12, 20, 24. May 4 (twice) and 25 (twice) Aberystwyth, Dyfed Cclass...
Category: Services
Anne
Coaster aground LATE ON THE NIGHT OF Saturday November 9, 1985, the Dutch coaster, Anne, radioed that she was dragging her anchor and getting close to Long Scar rocks near Hartlepool. There was a north-north-easterly strong gale force 9,...
One Armed Bend It: Superfit Ian Mckenty (I) and Andy
One armed bend it: superfit Ian McKenty (I) and Andy (r) raised themselves 1,050 times and £140 in cash in 30 minutes by doing one armed press-ups. This excruciating exercise took place in The Ale House, Bath, and was organised by Mr... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Winona and H.M. Trawler Commander Holbrook
NOVEMBER 10TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 5.20 A.M. the Great Yarmouth coastguard telephoned that rockets had been seen, and later it was learned that the British steamer Winona was aground five miles N.E. 1/2 E. from...
Life-Boat Calendar and Christmas Card
THE life-boat Christmas Card and Calendar will have reproduced on them in colour the picture shown above. It depicts a life-boat rescue on the dreaded Goodwin Sands. The paint- ing is one of two presented to the Institution some years ago by...
Category: Advertisement
Life-Boat Calendar and Christmas Card
THE Institution is again issuing a life- boat calendar for the New Year and a life-boat Christmas card.
The calendar has on it a reproduction in colours of a picture by Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I., of the rescue by the Cromer...
Category: Advertisement
The Arklow Fishing Boat Pride of Kilmichael
APRIL 12TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 8.45 in the morning a fishing boat at anchor in the South Shear was seen to be flying a distress signal, and at 9.30 the motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched. A north-westerly...
Jennifer, Age Seven,
Jennifer, age seven, from Liversidge sent in a photo of her on the day she took a trip on an out-of-service lifeboat in Whit by. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
'The Signal Was Eventually Fired, and If Nothing Else, Provided Excitement for the Many Holidaymakers Now Lining the Cliff Top.'
'The signal was eventually fired, and if nothing else, provided excitement for the many holidaymakers now lining the cliff top.'. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Arna
During hazy weather on the 7th Decem- ber the passenger steamer Arna, of Bergen, bound from Bergen to the Tyne, stranded on the Boulmer " South Steel." At about 6.30 P.M. the vessel's lights were observed and the Life-boat...