LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
August (1)
AUGUST MEETING LANNERCOMBE, SALCOMBE, DEVON. About 7.30 in the evening of the 9th July, 1940, the Latvian steamer Talvaldis was attacked by enemy aeroplanes off Start Point. The weather was moderate. The Salcombe motor life-boat was called...
Category: Services
None (1)
When four friends went diving in Liverpool Bay last November they checked the weather and had all the right equipment, but a change in the weather, a faulty VHP radio and a marker buoy which didn't behave as it should conspired to put...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WEXFORD, IRELAND.—The No. 1 (large) Life-boat, placed at Wexford about four- teen years since, having become unfit for further service, it was replaced by the Institution in November, 1871—a very fine boat, 40 feet long and 10 feet wide,...
Category: Articles
Golden Hope
SEVERE At 9 a.m. on loth April, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that the m.f.v. Golden Hope was at sea and that conditions in the harbour approaches were very severe, with visibility almost nil. The life-boat Mary Ann...
The Sailing Barge Colonia
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.1 on the night of the 29th of October, 1956.
the coastguard reported that flares had been seen in the area of Shellness.
At 11.35 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil...
A Dinghy (4)
Life-boat 70-002, Lerwick, Shetlands - At 12.9 p.m. on loth July, 1966, a local visitor informed the coxswain that there was a dinghy apparently in difficulties off the harbour. Using his binoculars the coxswain saw that the dinghy was...
A Model of Shoreham Harbour's 42Ft Watson Lifeboat Dorothy and Philip Constant Made By- Mr Holman Snr Is 'stationed' at Southsea Canoe Lake
A model of Shoreham Harbour's 42ft Watson lifeboat Dorothy and Philip Constant, made by- Mr Holman, Snr, is 'stationed' at Southsea canoe lake.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
TIME OF THE ESSENCE AS TOW IS PASSED Eight saved from yacht dismasted and close to rocks in onshore gale The coxswain of Blyth lifeboat, Keith Barnard, has been awarded the RNLI's Thanks of the Institution on Vellum for saving the lives...
Category: Services
Pangbourne Branch Is Affiliated to Weymouth Lifeboat Station and a Framed Colour Photograph of the 54' Arun Tony Vandervell Presented By Weymouth Crew Was Unveile
Pangbourne branch is affiliated to Weymouth lifeboat station, and a framed colour photograph of the 54' Arun Tony Vandervell, presented by Weymouth crew, was unveiled at the Swan Inn, Pangbourne, on December 8 by Chantal d'Orthez,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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