LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Feature: Getting to Know Her
The arrival of a new lifeboat on station is an exciting time and greatly anticipated by the crew and the community from which they come. But what will she be like?For many, the RiverTamar simply marks the point where Devon ends and Cornwall...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Services In December, January and February
During December, 19-17, life-boats went out on service 44 times and rescued 24 lives.
NO PETROL Hartlepool, Co. Durham. — At nine o'clock on the night of the 2nd of December, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that a small...
Category: Services
The Arun Class Is the Most Numerous of the RNLI's All-Weather Lifeboats.
The Arun class is the most numerous of the RNLI's all-weather lifeboats.
Designed to lie afloat on a mooring 46 boats were built between 1971 and 1990 for use in every Division.
Although some changes... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Books for the Young
Two selections of stories for the young which have recently been published contain accounts of the exploits of the great Cromer coxswain, Henry Blogg.
All in the Day's Work (Hamish Hamil- ton 6/6) opens with an extract...
Category: Articles
The North Goodwin Lightvessel
LIGHTVESSEL CREWMAN BROUGHT ASHORE Ramsgate, Kent. At 4.22 a.m. on Monday the 1st of July, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a member of the crew of the North Goodwin lightvessel was very ill. At 4.40 the life-boat...
The Smaller of the Two Norwegian Boats Ragni Berg Stood By a Dutch Yacht In Trouble Off Esbjerg on Her Passage from Norway Photograph By Courtesy of Dag Pike
The smaller of the two Norwegian boats, Ragni Berg, stood by a Dutch yacht in trouble off Esbjerg on her passage from Norway. - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of Dag Pike. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (193)
MARCH 8TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £11 8s. 8d..
The Coastal Steamer Spey
JANUARY 25TH. - AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND. The motor life-boat Frederick and Emma was launched at 8.40 A.M. to the help of the coastal steamer Spey, of Newcastle, which had run ashore on the rocks at the north side of Coquet...
The Brede's Self-Righting Capability Is Provided By Her Watertight Wheelhouse and the Grp-Covered Polyurethane Buoyancy Block Mounted on Her Stern
The Brede's self-righting capability is provided by her watertight wheelhouse and the GRP-covered polyurethane buoyancy block mounted on her stern.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Keynes
Caister, Norfolk.—At 9.50 on the morn- ing of the 15th of August, 1955, localshipping agents asked if the life-boat would take ashore a sick man from the S.S. Keynes, of London, which was lying at anchor two miles north-west of North Cockle...