LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Carriages
A MOST important adjunct to a coast life- boat is a carriage. It is not sufficient that the boat herself be of a superior description, capable of contending safely and successfully with that element in which her work has to be performed,...
Category: Articles
New Rother Class Life-Boat
Once the decision had been taken to fit all new life-boats with radar it was clear that the design of the 37-foot Oakley class of self-righting life-boat would have to be modified appreciably to enable radar to be fitted. The opportunity was...
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Fendyke (1)
Knockdown A COASTER, Fendyke, in trouble off Carnoustie a few miles north of the entrance to the River Tay was reported to the honorary secretary (operations)of Broughty Ferry lifeboat station, who is also the harbour master, by HM...
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE Life-boat Saturday season is now in full swing and all over the country the various Committees and Ladies' Auxiliaries which have been organised for helping on the movement are hard at work. During the last few months a slight...
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Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1883
Jan. 4.—Voted 31. to three fishermen for putting off in a boat and saving at some risk, the crew, consisting of four men, of the Norwegian sciiooner Johanna, which was wrecked on Car Carrig Rock, off the coast of Fifeshire, during a whole...
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Vineta
Lifeboatman overboard during long service to stricken coaster Members of the Scarborough lifeboat crew hauled their own Second Coxswain, John Trotter, to safety aboard their new Mersey class lifeboat Fanny Victoria Wilkinson and Frank Stubbs...
The Civil Service Life-Boats
Inaugural Ceremonies at Donaghadee (Co. Down) and Whitehills (Banffshire).
DURING the present year the Inaugural Ceremonies have taken place of two new Motor Life-boats which are gifts to the Institution from the Civil...
Category: Inaugurations
Guy and Clare Hunter In Gale Force Winds Standing By the \Acht Braemar Before Taking Her In Tow May 22 1967
Guy and Clare Hunter, in gale force winds, standing by the acht Braemar before taking her in tow. May 22, 1967. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Bowman Richard Lethbridge. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Launches
Lifeboat launches on service during the months June, July and August, 1973 Aith, Shetland July 20.
Aldeburgh, Suffolk June 11, July 15 and August 15.
Amble, Northumberland July 4, 27 and August...
Category: Services
The Duke With Coxswain Alfred Sinclair
The Duke with Coxswain Alfred Sinclair and the crew ofStromness lifeboat. Captain John Allan, honorary secretary of the station branch, is on the left with (I to r) Rear Admiral W. J. Graham, director of the Institution, Motor Mechanic... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs