LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Focus on Padstow,,,
ALTHOUGH I had been to Padstow, Cornwall, years ago on holiday, the visit I paid in July this year for the purpose of this article was the first since then, I found, as before, a bustling village in high summer and, some miles way, the...
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The child, the engineer and the Wizzer
In October 1973, airmen and their families in the then West Germany pledged to raise funds for a B class lifeboat
Young Allen Stevens was a primary school student at RAF Wildenrath, where his...
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A Ship's Doctor's Gratitude. The Story of a Whitby Rescue
The Story of a Whitby Rescue.
[The following story of a family's gratitude to the Life-boat Service appeared in the " Yorkshire Evening Post " on 5th September last, from the paper's special...
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The S.S.. Binnendijk
OCT. 7TH. - WEYMOUTH, DORSET. At 11.15 P.M. the coastguard informed the lifeboat station that signals of distress had been seen near Grove Point. A message was received a few minutes later that a ship was in distress, through enemy action,...
The S.S. Brinkburn
The S.S. Brinkburn; of London, with twenty- two men on board, whilst bound from Antwerp to Cardiff in ballast on the 24th February, stranded on the Good- win Sands near the S.E. buoy. The weather at the time was threatening, and the Charles...
An Effective But Less Elegant Self-Righting Method
An effective but less elegant self-righting method. Inflating an air-bag, seen here on a 52ft Barnett, moves the centre of buoyancy to right the boat, but its bulk is less than convenient if left inflated.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Prince of Wales at the Bradford Matinee
THE Prince of Wales gave yet another proof of his deep personal interest in the work of the Institution and its Branches when he visited Bradford on 13th November. His visit was for the purpose of opening the new buildings of the Chamber of...
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Newsbuoy's Inflatable Y Boat Takes a Lifeboat Crew Member Off the Replica Longboat Just Before Beginning the Long Tow Back to Stromness.
Newsbuoy's inflatable Y boat takes a lifeboat crew member off the replica longboat just before beginning the long tow back to Stromness.. - View image in PDF
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Rudderman
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—About 1.30 early on the morning of the 17th of Novem- ber, 1952, the tanker Rudderman, of London, wirelessed that her chief engineer had a badly poisoned arm and asked for a boat to land him. The weather was too bad for a...