LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lord Wakefield's Gifts. A New Motor Life-Boat and Boat-House at Hythe, Kent
THE Viscount Wakefield of Hythe, G.C.V.O., C.B.E., LL.D., who is vice- president of the Hythe, Kent, branch, has presented to the Institution the whole cost, amounting to £9,669 2s. 9d., of the new motor life-boat which was stationed at...
Category: Donations
Duckhams Oils Ltd
Since experimental trials in'63 the ILBs have proved so successful that there are now 100 of them in regular use as well as the 150 conventional lifeboats. Over a three month period last year, these tough, nearly indestructable craft,...
Category: Advertisement
Duckhams Oils Ltd
Since experimental trials in'63 the ILBs have proved so successful that there are now 100 of them in regular use as well as the 150 conventional lifeboats. Over a three month period last year, these tough, nearly indestructable craft,...
Category: Advertisement
Queen of Falmouth
Falmouth, Cornwall - At 11 a.m. on 22nd May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor launch had fired an orange flare about three miles south by east from Pendennis.
The life-boat Crawford and...
Obituaries
Deaths Michael Abbott - former Dover lifeboat station Crew Member DrTom Andrews - former Cramer lifeboat station Honorary Medical Adviser Dr Paul Barclay - former Cramer lifeboat station Honorary Secretary Giles Battock - Kinsale lifeboat...
Category: Obituaries
Olive May
On the 3rd Septem- ber, at about 5.15 P.M., fishermen told the Coxswain that a barge, two miles E.S.E. of Cromer, was flying a signal. The weather was fine with a smooth sea and strong W.N.W. breeze.
The signal was not...
The Isle of Wight Packet-Boat Prince of Wales
The Christmas Gales.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...
The Isle of Wight Packet-Boat Prince of Wales (1)
The Christmas Gales.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...
(Left) the New 52Ft Arun Class Relief Lifeboat 52-22 During Her Naming Ceremony at Poole
(Left) The new 52ft Arun class relief lifeboat 52-22 during her naming ceremony at Poole depot; in attendance, lying alongside the quay, is the new Waveney lifeboat which has now gone on station at Blyth.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs