LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
In all respects ready for sea I was interested to read the article on survey and maintenance of the offshore fleet in the autumn edition of THE LIFEBOAT. Certainly the work involved in the various surveys is enormous, and it is useful to...
Category: Correspondence
A Motor Boat (9)
NOVEMBER 3RD. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT Signals had been made by a motor boat, but she was escorted into harbour by another boat. - Rewards, £13 14s. 6d..
Relief Fleet - Trent Class Earl and Countess Mountbatten of Burma
Countess Mountbatten puts to sea from the RNLI's Poole depot quay aboard the first Trent class lifeboat shortly after naming her Earl and Countess Mountbatten of Burma.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Below (L-R): Phill Cummins, Ray Brown and Barry Chick
Below (l-r): Phill Cummins, Ray Brown and Barry Chick. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On Service In the Pentland Firth
THE following description of a service in the Longhope life-boat appeared in the mid-December 1962 number of "Motor Boat and Yachting." This is reproduced by kind permission of the editor, Commander Erroll Bruce, R.N., who is...
Category: Services
A Fishing Boat
EXMOUTH, DEVON.—A fishing boat which had proceeded to sea in favourable weather early in the morning of the 24th March, was overtaken by a strong gale from S.S.W., and as the sea became very heavy accompanied by a very thick rain,...
The Lifting Barge Eileen Dubv E.
Escort for barge with dangerous list Holyhead's relief Tyne class Voluntary Worker was called on to stand by when the cargo aboard the 40m lifting barge Eileen Dubv E shifted in a Force 6 WNW wind and moderate to rough seas some seven...
Southend-On-Sea May 2 1986:
Southend-on-Sea, May 2, 1986: on a brilliant day, with bunting splashing colour across the blue skies, Princess Anne came to Southend-on-Sea to name a new lifeboat after a local hero. She met and talked to station officials, crew members and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Below) Jimmy Savile at the Helm of the Atlantic 21 on Show With a 'Crew' of Scouts
. . . and (below) Jimmy Savile at the helm of the Atlantic 21 on show with a 'crew' of Scouts.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Standing By
The Dover motor life-boat and the ss. Ardgantock with a heavy list. (See next page.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs