LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Offshore Lifeboat Service December 1979 January and February 1980
February, 1980 Aldeburgh, Suffolk January 25 Amble, Northumberland January 25 Anstruther, Fife January 31 Arranmore, Co. Donegal December 17, 18, 28, 29 and January 25 Barrow, Cumbria January 13 Barry Dock, South Glamorgan February 17...
Category: Services
(Front to Back): Bangor Atlantic 21 Lifeboat Youth of Ulster,
(Front to back): Bangor Atlantic 21 lifeboat Youth of Ulster, Lame Trent class lifeboat Dr John McSparran and Donaghadee Arun class lifeboat City of Belfast. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Alan Thomas of the Tenby Lifeboat
Coxswain Alan Thomas of the Tenby lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Georgia and the S.S. St. Helena
Ramsgate, Kent.—At eight o'clock on the morning of the 8th of May, 1956, the Deal coastguard telephoned to say that the Panamanian tanker Georgia had been in collision with the S.S. St.
Helena in fog 23 miles...
Lifeboat People
Coxswain Richard Evans, BEM, received the Honorary Fellowship of Manchester Polytechnic on Thursday, December 4, 1975, in honour of his long and distinguished service as a member of the crew and as coxswain of Moelfre lifeboat. Coxswain...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services (from page 218)
the harbour entrance when she received a message from Barragutt saying that her steering gear had broken down and she was wallowing in the navigation channel between perches 6 and 7. When crossing the first bar the wire connecting the rudder...
Category: Services
Feature Zetland Lifeboat - 200 Years
The Zetland is the oldest surviving lifeboat in the world. She first saw action in 1802 and continued to save lives at Redcar until 1880. Local historian Dave Phillipson, a crew member from 1961-1986, looks at the history of a remarkable...
Category: Articles
The Development of the Lifeboat from Page 58
from page 58 no doubt be true to say that this fourth period—say the last 20 to 25 years— has seen the greatest and most far reaching changes in the history of the RNLI.
These changes include the advent of the small...
Category: Articles
Twelfth International Lifeboat Conference By Patrick Howarth
'Most of our problems are common — let us solve them together' by Patrick Howarth THE CITY OF HELSINKI became associated with international conferences in the minds of millions in July of this year through the great assembly of...
Category: Meetings
Lorn
HOLYHEAD.—On the 4th of April, 1886, at midnight, the schooner Lorn, of Lancaster, bound from Wicklow for Liverpool, showing signals of distress during a moderate gale from the S.W., the Thomas Fielden Life-boat put off to her assistance.<...