LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Thirtieth Arun Snolda (1985)
The thirtieth Arun, Snolda (1985), looks identical to modern boats, but she is the only steel boat in the class. Steel construction proved too expensive.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
After Each of His Shows at the Playhouse Theatre Bournemouth Last Summer Max Bygraves Went Into the Foyer to Autograph His Lp Record Albums All Profits Were Di
After each of his shows at the Playhouse Theatre, Bournemouth, last summer. Max Bygraves went into the foyer to autograph his LP record albums. All profits were divided between four charities and Mr Bygraves presented the first cheques, for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Ex-R.N.L.I. Life-Boat The Ivy Dale
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 9.30 in the morning of the 3rd of June, 1952, the Spurn . Point coastguard telephoned that an ex-R.N.L.I. life-boat, the Ivy Dale, of London, had run ashore off Withernsea and had damaged her rudder. She asked for the...
Safe in the surf
Surfsports are becoming ever more popular, and leading to more and more lifeboat and lifeguard rescues.
With this in mind, the RNLI has published In the Surf, a guide to surfsport safety.
Packed with...
Category: Articles
The Women Launchers of Dungeness
[This interview was broadcast in the B.B.C. programme Radio Newsreel on 19th of March, 1953, when Mr. Valentine Selsey of the B.B.C. spoke to Miss Madge Tart and Mrs. Ellen Tart, of Dungeness. It is reproduced by the courtesy of the B.B.C.] ...
Category: Articles
Birds Eye Life-Boat
A new life-boat to be presented to the Royal National Life-boat Institution by Birds Eye Foods Ltd. will be stationed at New Quay, Cardiganshire. The money for the new boat was produced through the Birds Eye 'Help Launch a Life-boat...
Category: Donations
Letters
AIRBORNE LIFE-BOATS 0 I was looking at back numbers of THE LIFEBOAT and came on your issue of January, 1971, in which an airborne life-boat in connection with the Wells, Norfolk, article was shown being dropped off the east coast on 5th May,...
Category: Correspondence
The Norwegian Cargo Vessel Christian
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 8.55 on the evening of the 28th of March, 1961, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a report from the Preston pilot cutter that the Nor- wegian cargo vessel Christian was aground on...
Hephzi-Bah and The John
Amble, Northumberland. — In the morning of the 5th of July, 1948, the local fishing cobles, Hephzi-Bah, and The John, were at sea. At 9.30, although the breeze from the north- north-west was moderate, a rough sea was running, and at...
Launches
ABERDEEN ON-1248(17-24):Jan6, Mar 18,Apr 5,15 D-470:Jan 6,18,31 D-536:Mar10,18,Apr 2,5,17 ABERDOVEY B-758:Mar 25,Apr 2,23 ABERSOCH B-790:Jan 23 ABERYSTWYTH B-704:Jan 23,Feb 2, Mar 9,10,26, Apr 2,3,14,16,21,24(x2) ACHILL ISLAND ON-1240(14-28)...
Category: Services