LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tri-Ang Motor Lifeboat
This photograph shows the toy lifeboat which reader O N Carson referred to in his letter (mi: LIFEBOAT. Autumn 19K7, page 206). The model is approximately ten inches long and is clockwork powered. It is constructed from plastic, except for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Bar Lightship
During a moderate N.N.E. gale on the night of 30th September, the Bar light-ship broke loose from her moorings and commenced to drift towards the banks. Her position was one of considerable danger, and signals of distress attracted the...
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 107. Lives rescued 38.
September Meeting.
Stromness, Orkney.—On the 24th June the steam trawler Braemar, of Aberdeen, homeward bound from fishing, ran ashore on the north side of Birsay in a...
Category: Services
R E Prior & Co
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Cleghorn Waring & Co (Pumps) Ltd
"Who keeps JABSCO bronze pumps oircutet/ng?" O£6WOKW WAKING If you have a circulating pump problem, get in touch with Cleghorn Waring. Their technical advice service is second to none, with 20 years experience of Jabsco to...
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May
Islay, Inner Hebrides - At 7.30 p.m.
on 29th April, 1966, a man informed the honorary secretary that a motor fishing vessel was in trouble off the Isle of Jura.
The help of the Islay life-boat had been...
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MARCH 24TH. - MARGATE, KENT. A burning aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but the ten airmen had all baled out and come down on land near Birchington.- Rewards, £8 11s..
The Strom Ness Life-Boat Alongside the Crippled Norwegian Vessel Kings Star (1,189 Tons) After She Had Hit the North Shoal—A Dangerous Rock Eight Miles Off The Orkneys
The Strom ness life-boat alongside the crippled Norwegian vessel Kings Star (1,189 tons) after she had hit the North Shoal—a dangerous rock eight miles off the Orkneys.
Also alongside are two of the vessel's own... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat People
Among the awards announced in the Birthday Honours list were: KCVO Captain Alastair Sturgis Aird, cvo.
Sir Alastair is Comptroller and Equerry to HM Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, a Patron of the...
Category: Articles
A Fishing Vessel
Man unconscious A STRONG south-westerly breeze, force 6, was blowing on the afternoon of Wednesday July 17, 1985, when New Quay's (Dyfed) 37ft Oakley class lifeboat, Birds Eye, launched after the coastguard had reported a fishing vessel...