LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Scarborough Evening News man on the spot on 7th August was chief photographer Jay Mason—he was taking pictures of Filey life-boat's demonstration launch when a real rescue came up. The launch, for Filey life-boat flag day, involved the... - View image in PDF

MARCH 1ST. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.

During the morning, while the fishing cobles were out, the wind increased until it was blowing strongly from the north-west, with a rising sea. All the cobles returned - many leaving their...

IN the early morning of 14th February, with a heavy sea running, a Welsh steam-trawler, the Tenby Castle, went ashore on the rocks in Clifden Bay, Con- nemara, on the west of Ireland, a coast where there are many rocky islands, the great...

SOUTHERN DISTRICT Eastney, Hampshire - At 3.10 p.m.

on i4th May, 1966, a member of the IRB crew informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had capsized off the Royal Marine Barracks. At 3.15 the IRB was launched...

Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 8.45 in the evening, on the 1st of June, 1950, dis- tress signals were seen about three miles south-east of Moelfre Island. At nine the life-boat G.W. was launched.

The sea was smooth, with a northerly...

On the night of the 1st of May, the smack Wonder was swamped, off Teignmouth Harbour. The cries of her crew, 2 in number, were heard from the shore, but nothing could be seen from it, the night being very dark. The Teignmouth life-boat was...

Zodiac Inflatables, the incomparable blow-up boats from France are portable, rigid and designed to be directionally stable with full manoeuvrability. What's more they are long lasting-designed to operate in continuous rugged...

THESE remains but one type of Life-boat to which reference is necessary to com- plete the description of those boats which are propelled either by sail or oars. The Cromer type bears so strong a resemblance to the Liverpool Life- boats that...