LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
THE RNLI INQUIRY into the capsizes of Barra Island and Islay lifeboats off the west coast of Scotland last November, reported on page 6, has concluded that both lifeboats were overwhelmed by heavy breaking seas in violent storm conditions...
Category: Articles
Cover Picture
by Dave Trotter The launch of Padstow's Oakley class lifeboat featured in many RNLI publications and posters, but this is the scene brought up to date as 47-002, relief Tyne class Sam and Joan Woods, is launched during the summer of J988... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
WHAT’S ON
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Launch of a New Life-Boat at Tynemouth
[Abridged from the Newcastle-on- Tyne Daily Papers.] THE new life-boat, recently presented by GEORGE JOHN FENWICK, Esq., to the port of Tynemouth, was launched there on Friday, the 13th November, with an unusual degree of ceremony. The boat...
Category: Inaugurations
Hyake
At 9.50 A.M. on the 22nd October, the Life-boat of this Station, the People's Journal, No. 1, was launched for the purpose of saving the crew of the barque Eyack, of Langesund in Norway, which was wrecked north of Battray Head, a hard...
Athina B After She Had Finally Been Driven Ashore on Brighton Beach the Entrance to Shoreham Harbour Is Beyond the Distant Power Station Chimneys (Top Left) Photograph By Courtesy of 'Eveni
Athina B after she had finally been driven ashore on Brighton Beach. The entrance to Shoreham Harbour is beyond the distant power station chimneys (top left).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fig 4 (Below): Plating of the First of the Two Prototype Fast Slipway Lifeboats Is Complete And
Fig. 4 (below): Plating of the first of the two prototype fast slipway lifeboats is complete and the hull has been turned through 180 degrees so that it is now right way up. A welder is at work attaching deck fittings to the deck stringer... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Tug
Tug escorted YARMOUTH COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Wells lifeboat station at 1245 on Monday April 11, 1983, that Dockman, a 70ft ex-river tug which had been on passage from London to Newcastle but whose radar and compass...
A Miles Training Aircraft
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 1.55 in the af ternoon of the 29th of January, 1949, the police reported an aet-opttie down in the sea about a mile off shore between Lancing and Shoreham, and the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was...
The American Steamer Byron Darnton, of Baltimore
MARCH 16TH - 17TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. Soon after eleven o’clock on the night of the 16th the Southend coastguard reported to the Campbeltown life-boat station that a ship was ashore...