LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Other Irb Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on pages 230, 238 and 244, the following launches on service were made during the months March, April and May, 1970, inclusive: Abersoch,...
Category: Services
How "Life-Boat Flag Days" Are Arranged
ON the outbreak of War last year many Branch Committees felt that the arrangements which they had in prospect for the benefit of the Institution should be abandoned and their labours devoted to the many War Funds which immediately sprang...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
West Division Steering failure LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of New Brighton lifeboat station at 1400 on Sunday August 29, 1982, that the yacht Ocea was acting in an erratic manner and appeared to be in difficulties...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (4)
JANUARY 4TH. - EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX A Spitfire aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but the life-boat was recalled as the airman had been drowned. - Rewards, £14..
The S.S. Baron Renfrew
FEBRUARY 6TH. - TOBERMORY, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 11.50 A.M. information was received from a resident of Ulva, through the police, that an unknown vessel had been seen drifting towards the Island of Little Colonsay, and at 12.55 P.M. themotor...
The Converted Ship's Boat Heron
Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire.— About 9.10 on the night of the 21st of August, 1955, the life-boat motor mechanic saw flares burning about a quarter of a mile north-east of Porth- dinllaen Point. He told the coast- guard and the life-boat...
Newhaven's Arun Class Lifeboat Keith Anderson Closes In on the Mfv Ocean Spirit
Newhaven's Arun class lifeboat Keith Anderson closes in on the MFV Ocean Spirit after the vessel ran aground while entering Newhaven Harbour on 31 March 1994.
Coxswain/mechanic Michael Beach had been about to leave the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Right: New Year's Day Also Saw Revellers Taking the Plunge at the Annual Loony Dook
Right: New Year's Day also saw revellers taking the plunge at the annual Loony Dook in the Firth of Forth. Alice KenneCy gets a helping hand from South Queensferry lifeboat crew. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...
Category: Articles
Some of the Happiest Calls on Our Lifeboats Lire 'Christmas Runs' to Lightvessels and Isolated Lighthouses
Some of the happiest culls on our lifeboats lire 'Christmas runs' to lightvessels and isolated lighthouses.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs