LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Working Together: Helicopters and Lifeboats
AT THE TIME of the London Boat Show last January a discussion was held on the shared task of lifesaving at sea by lifeboats and rotary wing aircraft. The helicopters of the Royal Navy were represented by Lt-Cdr Adrian Thomas, Commanding...
Category: Articles
The Belfast Annual Meeting
Front Row. left to right: Mr. Robinson (Honorary Secretary), the Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, the Duke of Montrpse, the Lord Mayor, the High Sheriff, Viscount Bangor.
Back Row : The District Organizing Secretary, the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Estonian Yacht Tuuneki (1)
Portrush, Co. Antrim; Donaghadee, Co.
Down.— 25th October, 1937. The Estonian yacht Tuuneki, manned by an Estonian and his wife, who were makinga honeymoon tour to various countries, had got into difficulties off Torr Head...
Squibbs
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford - While the reserve life-boat H. F. Bailey was on passage from Arklow to Rosslare harbour on 3ist May, 1966, she came up with a small yacht which was becalmed with her engine broken down, south of Cahore Point....
(Left) Watson:
(left) Watson: length overall 46ft 9in; beam 12ft 9in; draught 4ft 4in; displacement 23 tons; maximum speed, over 8 knots; range at full speed, 200 nautical miles. The 46ft 9in Watson, introduced in 1947, launches down a slipway or lies... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cover Picture
The 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Jane Hay, stationed at Newcastle, County Down, Northern Ireland. She was built in 1964 and was originally at St Abbs in Scotland, later entering the relief fleet. Jane Hay arrived at Newcastle in 1980 and... - View image in PDF
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Two B.E.M's.
Coxswain William Swankie, of Arbroath, who won the bronze medal of the Institution in February, 1940, for going to the help of a barge which wa» being bombed by a German aeroplane, and Coxswain Patrick Murphy, of Newcastle, Co. Down,...
Category: Articles
A Fishing Boat (5)
OCTOBER 31ST. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL. While a small fishing boat was returning from the fishing grounds her engine broke down, and the motor life-boat K.T.J.S.
was launched at 2.30 PM. to help her. A northerly wind was...
Stella, of London & Criterion
At daybreak, on I the morning of the 27th Aug., the yacht I Sulla, of London, riding at anchor in i Holknam Bay, was seen to be exhibiting ) a signal of distress. There was a heavy ) gale from the north blowing at the time, j which had...
Ivylea
Aith, Shetlands.—On the morning of the 5th of November, 1954, a man at East Burrafirth saw that a fishing boat had broken down in the Rona and asked the driver of a car to tell the life-boat station. The motorist de- livered the message at 9...