LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Top Right: the Troon Lifeboat Crew
Top right: The Troon lifeboat crew, shown trialling the yellow Mkl Gecko helmet, are nearly unanimous in favour of the new helmet.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Letters
Pilgrimage to Barmouth My wife-and I return home to America tomorrow and take pleasure in sending you a traveller's cheque for £50.
With it we extend our grateful thanks for the kindness and hospitality which you...
Category: Correspondence
A Life-Boat Worker of Four Years Old
THE following story of how a little girl of four years old worked for the Life-boats has been sent to the Institution by the Honorary Secretary of its Llandudno Branch:— "A little girl visitor, Betty Ruth Wharton, of Oldham, only four...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
South East Division Speedboat AT 1734 on Bank Holiday Monday, August 1986, the crews of Sheerness' 44ft Waveney and 16ft D class inflatable lifeboats were alerted by the duty officer at the Medway Port Office, following reports from...
Category: Services
Top: a Contemporary Artist's Impression of Southport Lifeboat
Top: a contemporary artist's impression of Southport lifeboat at the moment of her capsize (reproduced by courtesy of The Illustrated London News Picture Library)..
Category: Drawings
The Fundraisers
Boxing Day splash It's amazing what lengths some fundraisers go to! This photograph shows Llanfairfechan branch chairman, Rob Shiland, leading intrepid sponsored 'splashers' down the slipway into the freezing Boxing Day brine.<...
Category: Articles
In Support of the Mountbatten of Burma Appeal D Flight of Wrap Training Squadron Raf Hereford Who Had Taken Part In the Earl's Funeral Service Presented a Cheque to Glyn Williams Dos
In support of the Mountbatten of Burma appeal, D flight of WRAP Training Squadron, RAF Hereford, who had taken part in the Earl's funeral service, presented a cheque to Glyn Williams, DOS Wales, on the day of their passing out parade;... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Night Launch to Capsized Dinghy
ABOUT 10.45 on the night of Thursday, the 13th of December, 1962, the motor boat Zephyr, with Mr. John Smith the owner, who is a member of the Long- hope life-boat crew, and William Mowat on board, returned to her moorings at North Bay,...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services from Page 12
1004 the Atlantic 21 ILB Blue Peter II launched on service with David Jones as helmsman and John Askew and Simon Dubberley as crew; the honorary medical adviser, Dr Jack Dubberley, also embarked.
The sky was overcast with a...
Category: Services
Trials for Two
An investigation, by instrument and direct observation, into hull sea-keeping ability at high speed in rough water and the resultant fatigue experienced by man and machinery 50' Thames class prototype and 52' Arun Mk, II off...
Category: Articles