LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Left: Launching the Experimental Boat
Left: Launching the experimental boat at DML with a Trent class lifeboat shown behind).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tlemcen, the French Tug Champion and Bhutan
MAY 24TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 4.45 A.M. a message was received from the Deal coastguard that a steamer, with a number of women and children on board, had been bombed by enemy aircraft and was drifting in the South Downs. A light south-west...
The East Goodwin Lightvessel (1)
On the evening of 12th November, 1961, the East Goodwin lightvessel broke adrift. The Walmer, Dover and Ramsgate life-boats were all called out.
A full account of their services appears on page 200..
The East Goodwin Lightvessel (2)
On the evening of 12th November, 1961, the East Goodwin lightvessel broke adrift. The Walmer, Dover and Ramsgate life-boats were all called out.
A full account of their services appears on page 200..
The Freighter Akbar Jayanti, of Bombay
St. Mary's, Scilly Islands - At noon on 3ist October, 1966, a seaman aboard the freighter Akbar Jayanti, of Bombay, required medical attention, as a cockroach had crawled into his ear, causing severe earache. The life-boat Guy and Clare...
The Converted Ship's Boat David Nancy
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 8.45 on the morning of the 8th of December, 1954, the harbour master telephoned that a man had been seen waist-deep in the sea on the training wall on the east side of the Walney channel, The wall was a quarter of a...
Gale Service In the Pentland Firth
AT 11.40 on the night of the 6th of December, 1959, the honorary secre- tary of the Longhope, Orkneys, life- boat station, Dr. S. Peace, was told by the Kirkwall coastguard that the trawler George Robb was ashore on the Stacks of...
Category: Services
The Aith Hope Longhope) Life-Boat Crew
To the Coxswain and Crew of the Aith Hope Life-boat Samyntas Stannak, I respectfully dedicate these simple verses for their noble work on the iight of the 31st October. It 98, in connection with the disabled steamer Manchester City, during a...
Category: Poetry
Moneta and Other Yachts
Newhaven, Sussex. — At five in the afternoon, on the 27th of May, 1950, the coastguard telephoned a Brighton police report that a yacht was in dis- tress one mile off Saltdean. At 5.12 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian Philpott was...
The Late Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I.
BY the death of Mr. Charles Dixon, R.I., the marine painter, on 12th September, at the age of sixty-one, the Institution has lost a valued and •generous friend. Mr. Dixon painted two of the outstanding life-boat services of recent years, the...
Category: Obituaries