LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The Service to the Lee Bay.

ON 11th January of this year the motor life-boat at Appledore (Devon) was launched in a whole gale to the help of the motor fishing boat Lee Bay, of Ilfracombe, and rescued her crew of three men...

The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to tht ooat.

Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...

IN presenting to Parliament the Wreck Register and Chart for the year 1873—4, the BOARD OF TRADE observe that it has been found advisable to make up its tables from the 1st July to the 30th June, instead of from the 1st January to the 31st...

BY the death of Mr. Robert Legerton on 28th September, at the age of eighty, the Institution has lost one who has been closely associated with its Clacton- on-Sea Station since its establishment fifty-two years ago, and who, as a Coxswain,...

and 17 stations with rocket apparatus only, so that Sweden has a fleet of 26 motor life-boats, and 2 pulling (one with an outboard motor).

Turkey There were no services to British vessels.

There are 4 life...

TWO LIFE-BOATS STAND BY DUTCH MOTOR VESSEL Padstow, Cornwall, and Appledore, Devon. At 8.47 on the morning of the 15th December, 1962, the coastguard informed the Padstow honorary secretary that the motor vessel Nimrod of Groningen had been...

We are happy to announce that the following lifeboat people were awarded the Queen's Silver Jubilee medals: Major General Ralph H. Farrant, CB, Chairman, RNLI, L. A. Austin, chief personnel officer, RNLI, A. W. Neal, deputy secretary...

EVERY PIPE, every cable, even the oilcan and the radio telephone instructions, all to scale, can be found in a beautiful and meticulous model of Cromer's 48ft 6in Oakley lifeboat which was presented to the Institution last December....