LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Closing of the Wexford Station
FOE the past sixty-six years the Institu- tion has maintained a Life-boat Station at Wexford, at the south-eastern corner of Ireland. It has been one of the most important Stations on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland, for it has...
Category: Articles
Success II, Faith Star,Pilot Me II,Provider A and Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 24th of November, 1952, the coastguard reported that the local fishing boat Success II was mak- ing for Whitby in a heavy sea with a strong north-north-west wind. The No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann...
(Left) Canadian Coast Guard Has for Some Years Used Hovercraft In Its Rescue Work the First a British Hovercraft Corporation Srn5 Became Operational at Vancouv
(Left) Canadian Coast Guard has for some years used hovercraft in its rescue work. - View image in PDF
The first, a British Hovercraft Corporation SRN5, became operational at Vancouver in 1969.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Above) a Modem Lifeboat Is Complex |Ust a Small Part of the Wiring Switches and Circuit Breakers for the Engine and Equipment In the Process of Inslallation
(Above) A modem lifeboat is complex... |ust a small part of the wiring, switches and circuit breakers for the engine and equipment in the process of inslallation.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In This Issue
In this issue News Letters Feature Lifeboats on the Thames Lifeboats move into the big city with the establishment of four new stations on the River Thames Lifeboats in action Award-winning rescues - including an account of four people...
Category: Contents
A Tender
Capsized tender ON THE AFTERNOON of Tuesday December 22, 1981, Derek Scott, coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat, was at his home overlooking the seafront when, at 1555, he heard cries for help. Scanning thebay with his binoculars he saw two men...
Johnno (1)
Three saved from motor ship aground and awash off beachawash off beach Whitstable and Sheerness lifeboats were launched after the motor ship Johnno broadcast a Mayday on 12 January 1995. The vessel, on passage from the Isle of Grain to...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To EDWAKD WIOKHAM, on his retirement, after serving 27 years as Coxswain and previously 13 years as Second Coxswain of the Wexford Life-boat, a Certificate of Service, a Pension, and a Special Gratuity.
To STEPHEN CLAYSON,...
Category: Awards
PC Arthur E Farley and Sgt Douglas H Carter of the Bournemouth Police
P.C. Arthur E. Farley and Sgt. Douglas H. Carter, of the Bournemouth police, who boarded a blazing motor-boat off Bournemouth on 19th May, 1968, and afterwards picked up three people. The service was described in the September issue of THE... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs