LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mabel's Return
Tony Purnell talks to David Cowper following his two circumnavigations in an ex-RNLI lifeboat At the London Boat Show in January 1991, David Cowper was named Yachtsman of the Year. The award recognised a number of sailing achievements,...
Category: Articles
Alderman J. G. Oldfield, J.P., of Whitehaven
ALDERMAN J. G. OLDFIELD, of White- haven, Cumberland, who died on 8th May at the age of eighty, was for thirty- five years of his life the Honorary Secre- tary of the Whitehaven Life-boat Station. He found time for this work in the midst of...
Category: Obituaries
Dunluce
AUG. 11TH. - PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM.
At about 4 P.M. the second coxswain of the life-boat reported that the motor fishing boat Dunluce, of Portrush, with a crew of four on board, was in need of help off Curran...
The P&O Liner Oceana and The German Barque Pisagua
The P. & O. liner Oceana, which left London on the 15th March, with a large number of passengers, for Bombay, collided when off Beachy Head in the early morning of the 16th March with the German barque Pisagua.
The...
Beyond the limit
Exmouth Helmsman Roger Jackson thought he would never launch a lifeboat again. But now four young men owe him their lives
Exmouth is a popular seaside destination but on the afternoon of 23...
Category: Articles
Sea-Sickness Insurance
THE Institution has received as a gift from the students on the marine course, at the University College of North Wales, the sea-sickness insurance to which all contribute, and which is paid out to the first to be...
Category: Donations
A Sea-Plane (1)
Hastings, Sussex. — 2nd September, 1938. A sea-plane had come down, but she took off again shortly afterwards without help.—Rewards, £14 18s. 6d..
Raf Sea King Helicopter
RAF Sea King helicopter Photo. AE Turner. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sailing Dinghy
Capsized dinghy A SAILING DINGHY which had capsized against Brighton eastern marina breakwater was reported by the marina security to the deputy launching authority of Brighton lifeboat station at 1758 on Sunday June 19. The station's...