LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Yacht
Family of five saved in rough seas Criccieth lifeboat was alerted on 16 August following a call to Holyhead Coastguard from a family caught in heavy weather aboard their yacht just south of Criccieth Castle.Coastguards paged Criccieth...
Book Reviews
The Gurney Professor of History and Political Science at Harvard University, Mr. David Owen, has produced a comprehensive and thoroughly entertaining survey of charity in England and Wales—he has little to say on Scotland or Ireland—in the...
Category: Articles
The Danish Motor Fishing Vessel Opal
HUGE WAVE UPSET LIFE-BOAT ON the evening of 20th January last year the Danish motor fishing vessel Opal sailed from Buckle and set a course for the Fladden fishing grounds. At about 10.30 p.m. it was discovered that the engine room was...
Co-Operative
Co-operativ neralcare Funeral Pre-Payment Plan from Co-operative Funeralcare It's always a good idea to plan ahead and with a Funeral Pre-Payment Plan from Co-operative Funeralcare, you can do just that. There are three funeral packages...
Category: Advertisement
None (12)
FEBRUARY 17TH. - SHERINGHAM, AND WELLS, NORFOLK. Three airmen had baled out of an American Liberator aeroplane which later crashed on fire. The Wells lifeboat searched in the morning but found nothing, and after a parachute had been reported...
The Curved After End of the Tunnel Cant Is Built Up In Position of Agba Laminates Scarphed on to Solid Mahogany for the Straight Run Forward the Building Batten Can Once A
The curved after end of the tunnel cant is built up, in position, of agba laminates scarphed on to solid mahogany for the straight run forward. The building batten can once again be seen at the top of the picture.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Setting Sail on a New Voyage: Crew Member Paul Frost of Rhyl Aboard the ILB With His Bride Mary Bernadette Morris After Their Wedding Last Autumn Photograph By Courte
Setting sail on a new voyage: Crew Member Paul Frost of Rhyl aboard the ILB with his bride, Mary Bernadette Morris, after their wedding last autumn. - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of Rhyl Journal. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
St. Anne
Lytham-St. Anne's, Lancashire. At 10.55 on the night of the 18th of January, 1958, the Formby coastguard told the honorary secretary that the pilot cutter St. Anne, of Preston, was agroundbetween Lytham and Preston docks.
<...
Lady Launcher Passes Away
Lady launcher passes away It is with sadness that the Lifeboat reports the passing away of Dungeness ‘lady launcher’ Doris Tart (pictured above, front) on 30 April at Ashford’s William Harvey Hospital, aged 85.
Doris lived...
Category: Articles
The Early Days Recalled
TWO former operational staff were instrumental in convincing the RNLI of the need to introduce inflatables into the fleet. Lt David Stogdon, an inspector of lifeboats and later Superintendent of Cowes Base, where he led the design and...
Category: Articles