LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Special Appeals
The Lord Mayor of the Metropolitan Bradford has launched an appeal for £100,000 for a fast afloat lifeboat, and by January £40,000 had already beenreached. When HM The Queen visited the city last November a half-scale model of an...
Category: Donations
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Prompt action at Margate saves a life Margate's lifeboat coxswain Peter Barker and crew member Clive Simpson saved a man's life without recourse to the station's Mersey or the D class inflatable.
On Saturday 3...
Robbery
Survivors cling to upturned hull Selsey's Tyne class lifeboat City of London was called to the rescue of three Dutch sailors on 2 June 1993 when their 34ft yacht lost its ballast keel and capsized off Selsey during a fierce squall in the...
Can Anyone Help?
We are a voluntary organisation restoring the old Hartlepool lifeboat, The Princess Royal (Civil Service No.7), back to her original condition.
She is a 46ft Watson class, ON-828, and a gold medal-winning lifeboe There are... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Launching and Recovery—Part III: Tractor and Carriage Launch By Edward Wake-Walker Assistant Public Relations Officer (London)
SEAMEN, FISHERMEN and private boat owners all know that whenever they put to sea, together with an awareness of the state of the weather and of what is forecast, the state of the tide is of paramount importance to their...
Category: Articles
Death of the Right Hon. Sir Stephen Cave, G.C.B.
WE lament to announce the death of the Right Hon. Sir Stephen Cave, P.O., G.C.B., Paymaster-General and Judge Advocate- General in the late Government, and member for Shoreham from 1859 until the late general election. For some years Sir...
Category: Obituaries
Fleetworks Ltd
We congratulate the RNLI on 150 years of service to seafarers The Approved Reconditioning Specialists for RNLI Propellers Established 1898 LIMITED FLEETS BRIDGE POOLE, DORSET ENGLAND BH17 TAB Telephone Poole 3031 (STD Code 020 13).
Category: Advertisement
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To JOHN BENSLEY, on his retirement, after serving 3 additional years as Coxswain of the Gorleston No. 2 Life-boat when the No. 2 Station was temporarily re-opened, an in- crease of his Pension and a Certificate of Service. Bensley had...
Category: Awards
Henry Holman, of Plymouth
On the 14th January the schooner Henry Holman, of Plymouth, was observed in a dangerous position between the Clipera Rocks and Penrhyn Point, An- glesey, while the wind was blowing a very heavy gale from W.N.W. The Holyhead life-boat was at...
Fidelity
Fishermen plucked to safety from vessel in danger of capsize Coxswain John C. Murray of Buckle lifeboat station has been congratulated on the 'leadership, determination and skill' he displayed during a service to the fishing vessel...