LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Thirty-Fifth Civil Service Life-Boat
ST. KATHARINE DOCK, London, was the scene in blustery weather on 4th May, 1966, of the naming of the first of the Institution's fleet of yo-foot steel life-boats - the £57,000 Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35) - by Princess...
Category: Inaugurations
Touring Headquarters After the Third Lotterydraw June Whitfield Said How Much She Would Like to Go Out In a Lifeboat Arrangements Were Made for Her and Terry Scott
Touring headquarters after the third lotterydraw, June Whitfield said how much she would like to go out in a lifeboat. Arrangements were made for her and Terry Scott to go out on trials of the 50ft Thames class lifeboat which will be... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
After Her Righting Trial City of London IV Hauled Out Again at Fairey's Yard: a Group of Her Builders Were on Board Photograph By Courtesy of David Trotter
After her righting trial City of London i.v hauled out again at Fairev's vard: a group of her builders were on board. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of David Trotter. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Winners of the Rnli's Public Relations Awards on the Central Jetty at the London Boat Show After Their Presentation By Libby Purves - Writer and Member of The
Winners of the RNLI's Public Relations Awards on the central jetty at the London Boat Show after their presentation by Libby Purves - writer and member of the Public Relations Committee. From left to right, front row, Julian Ware... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Media Interest After the Arrival of the Medallists at the Festival Pier Aboard the Relief Mersey Her Majesty the Queen- Mark Paterson Interviewed
Media interest after the arrival of the medallists at the Festival Pier aboard the relief Mersey Her Majesty The Queen- Mark Paterson interviewed all four medallists for BBC local television and is seen here talking to Barry Bennett of St... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat
The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat is...
Category: Articles
President of Ireland Mary Robinson Enjoys a Trip on Rnlb Mabel Williams With Coxswain Pat Walker (Photo Dermot Desmond)
President of Ireland Mary Robinson enjoys a trip on RNLB Mabel Williams with Coxswain Pat Walker. (Photo Dermot Desmond). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy (15)
At 1.50 p.m. on 5th August, 1967, the coxswain was informed that a dinghy had capsized off Seapoint. The life-boat John F. Kennedy slipped her moorings 10 minutes later in a fresh southerly wind and a choppy sea. The tide was...
Teasel (2)
Ramsey, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.
•—Just before half past five in the evening of the 6th of January, 1948, the coastguard informed the Ramsey life-boat station that the motor vessel Teasel was six miles east of the...
Vamoss II
Yacht saved BRIXHAM COASTGUARD contacted Exmouth lifeboat station on the morning of Friday June 21, 1985 with the news that a yacht was in difficulties one mile off shore to the east of Sidmouth. Six minutes later, at 1046, the station's...