LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (28)
JUNE 2ND. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
An aeroplane had come down in the sea, one mile E.N.E. of Easington, but the life-boat’s help was not needed.- Permanent paid crew..
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The Danish Coaster Lady Kamilla (1)
Storm search A PROLONGED SEARCH was made by Padstow, St Ives and Clovelly lifeboats in a south-westerly storm for the Danish coaster Lady Kamilla, which foundered off Trevose Head on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1977, and for her crew of nine...
Life-Boat Crews on the Yorkshire Coast
FROM time immemorial it has been the custom of the Life-boat Service not to maintain fixed crews for Life-boats, but to draw volunteers as required from the seafaring population of the coast towns and villages where Life-boats are...
Category: Articles
The Sand Barge Margaret G.
D class inflatable braves Force 10 and total darknessPaul Gilson, the helmsman of Southend-on-Sea's D class inflatable lifeboat has been awarded the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum following a service on the night of 20/21...
Lamorna
Padstow: On the morning of January 26 the local fishing vessel Lamorna ran into difficulties when a rope got wrapped round her propeller about three quarters of a mile off Newquay Head.
She put out an anchor to await help...
£436 from Ships' Life-Boat Engines.
The Austin Motor Company, which is generously giving the Institution one shilling for each horse-power of every engine which it makes for a ship's life-boat, has now given £436: 8:-. The first gift of £240, presented to the...
Category: Articles
Scotland's Achievement
OXE of the notable Life-boat events of 1930 was the great increase in the amount contributed to the Institution by Scotland. In a year in which of the eight districts into which Great Britain and Ireland are divided for the purpose of the...
Category: Donations
Workington - North Division
Workington's unique davit launch system for the station's Tyne class lifeboat is housed in a strictly functional building just outside the Prince of Wales dock - at the root of the pier in the main photo - having been outside in the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Your Letters
Kits and pieces Sir - I would like to point out to Mr C. J.
Richardson (Your Letters, Spring 1990 issue) that there are several lifeboat models on the market.
Two models are currently available as complete...
Category: Correspondence