LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part VI: Trials
EARLY NOVEMBER saw the first launch from Fairey's yard at East Cowes of the RNLI's prototype fast slipway boat City of London. It was the start of the exact, and exacting, programme of builder's trials through which every...
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A Vessel (16)
MAY 24TH. - STROMNESS, ORKNEYS.
A vessel was reported to be making distress signals on her siren, but the life-boat’s help was not needed. - Rewards, £16 7s..
A Trawler (16)
DEC. 18TH. - ABERDEEN, AND PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE. A trawler had been reported to have been attacked by enemy aircraft eighty miles to the E.N.E.
of Aberdeen, but nothing could be found. - Rewards : Aberdeen, £23 17s...
An Aeroplane (16)
MAY 23RD. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but the pilot was able to reach shore in his rubber dinghy. - Rewards, £6 6s..
A Fishing Boat (16)
SEPTEMBER 26TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
A fishing boat had been reported overdue, but she was picked up by another fishing boat. - Rewards, £10 9s..
A Steamer (16)
APRIL 26TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. A steamer had been attacked and badly damaged, and her crew had abandoned her, but they were picked up by the examination vessel and a tug. - Rewards, £4 15s. 6d.
London International Boat Show 1979
EARL'S COURT, JANUARY 4-14 THE COMBINATION OF BLIZZARDS and transport strikes at the beginning of January might have seemed enough to scupper any exhibition—but not the London Boat Show. In spite of these difficulties and a stand which...
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Services by Auxiliary Rescue-Boats
Launches 6 Lives rescued 3 COURTOWN, Co. WEXFORD. At 5.40 in the afternoon of the 22nd of October, 1942, the honorary agent received information that the local motor fishing boat St. Mary was in difficulties about three miles to the north of...
Category: Services
The Owner of Cap Lizard (centre) Comes Ashore With the Lizard-Cadgwith Life-Boat Crew
The Owner of Cap Lizard (Centre) Comes Ashore With The Lizard-Cadgwith Life-Boat Crew. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Silver Quest (4)
Five lifeboats in long search for lost fishermen Newcastle, Co. Down's, Oakley class lifeboat Jane Hay and Portaferry's Atlantic 21 Blue Peter V took part in long searches for the two crewmen from a fishing boat Silver Quest which...