LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Admiralty Motor Fishing Vessel 609
FAULTY WIRELESS At 9.30 p.m. on I3th May, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that distress flares had been seen 20 miles south-south-west of St. Anne's Head. The life-boat Richard Vernon and Mary Garforth of Leeds was...
The Second Hen Island Challenge Race
The second Hen Island Challenge Race, for home-built craft which have cost no more than £25 and which have never before put to sea, was sailed in Northern Ireland last October; Portaferry D class inflatable lifeboat acted as one of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Looking at Lifeboats - the Tyne Class
Keith Thatcher, RNLI Naval Architect, continues a series of profiles of lifeboat classes Many people's image of a lifeboat launch is of a boat plummeting down a slipway into rough seas, disappearing into a cloud of spray at the foot of...
Category: Articles
Millennium Forester for the Relief Fleet
Millennium Forester tor the relief fleet This Atlantic 75 lifeboat, funded by members of The Independent Order of Foresters, will relieve similar lifeboats when they need repair or maintenance. 05/07/01. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Imperial Airways Aeroplane Boadicea (1)
Dungeness, Kent, and Hastings, Sussex.
—On the evening of the 25th September it was reported by the coastguard that the Imperial Airways aeroplane Boadicea, bound from Croydon to Paris, was missing. She had last been seen...
The Minesweepers Edwardian and Peter Carey
AUGUST 11TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 1.30 P.M. a destroyer lying off Margate and two minesweepers were being attacked by German aeroplanes. A fresh westerly breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot, on temporary...
Gudveig and the Latvian Steamer Everene
JANUARY 25TH. - HOLY ISLAND, AND NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
The Norwegian steamer Gudveig, of Oslo, and the Latvian steamer Everene, of Riga, had been sunk by mine or torpedo, but other steamers had picked up a...
The Cromer IRB Returning from a Service. the Crew Are Mr D Abbs (Helmsman) Mr D
The Cromer IRB returning from a service. The crew are Mr. D. Abbs (helmsman) Mr. D. West (port side) and Mr. 6. Morris (starboard side).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hrh the Duke of Kent President of the Institution Presents to Mrs V M Johnson
HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, presents to Mrs V. M. Johnson, honorary secretary of Bognor Regis branch, her honorary life governorship vellum.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboatmen Prepare to Transfer One of the Four Survivors from the Capsized Speedboat from Plymouth's
Lifeboatmen prepare to transfer one of the four survivors from the capsized speedboat from Plymouth's Arun class lifeboat to hospital. - View image in PDF
Photo Nic Randall, Plymouth News Pictures. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs