LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Johnston's Cliff-Crane
AMONGST the various instruments which have been invented from time to time for rescuing persons from drowning, is the in- genious machine with the above title, a drawing and description of which we annex.
The Cliff-crane...
Category: Articles
Seven Men Rescued from Trawler Aground
FOUR minutes after midnight on I3th December, 1963, the coxswain of the Caister life-boat, J. R. Plummer, learnt from the Gorleston coastguard that a vessel appeared to be in trouble two miles from the North Denes look- out. Coxswain Plummer...
Category: Services
Climbing Crew
Two 12-year-old boys were out exploring the north Devon coastline when they got cut off by the tide 10m up a cliff.
Several passers-by reported the boys’ predicament to the Coastguard, which requested the launch of...
Category: Articles
School Adopts Whitstable IRB
Following the sponsored walk last November, there was a presentation ceremony at Walford School, Ealing, early this year to hand over to the R.N.L.I.
a cheque for £1,017 11s.—the proceeds from the walk and other small...
Category: Correspondence
Two Canoes
Four rescued as canoes capsizeArran's inshore lifeboat C521 Prince of Arran rescued four people and recovered two canoes on 2 February following a call for assistance from Clyde Coastguard.
At 1145, the coastguard...
Fred Skywalker
Scarborough lifeboat honorary secretary, Fred Normandale, along with his daughter Sarah, Glynn Simpson and Jackie Cunningham wing walked over Scarborough on 2 August.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Gallant Service at Padstow. Bronze Medal Awarded to the Coxswain
ON llth February, with a gale blowing from W.N.W. and a very heavy sea running, the Norwegian steamer Taormina, of Oslo, with a crew of eighteen, attempted to enter Padstow Harbour when the tide was low. She struck on the Doom Bar, and lay...
Category: Services
Loss of Lives from Shipwreck at Bridlington
Some months ago, at Brid- lington, near Hull, during a strong S.E. gale, a small billyboy schooner came ashore south of the harbour of that place. She went into the bay and anchored in the afternoon. She soon dragged her...
Category: Articles
The 35-H.P. Clayton Agricultural Tractor Used for Launching a Life-Boat In the Trials at Hunstanton
The 35-HP Clayton Agricultural Tractor Used For Launching A Life-Boat In The Trials at Hunstanton. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Stuart Crystal Chalice for the RNLI Is Being Produced In a Strictly Limited Numbered Edition of 150
The Stuart Crystal Chalice for the R.N.L.I, is being produced in a strictly limited, numbered edition of 150.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs