LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Admiralty Drifter Nairnside
DECEMBER 28TH. - WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE. At 4.50 in the evening the coastguard reported signals from a vessel about five miles north-east of Whitehills, but the signals could not be understood. A northerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea,...
European
MARGATE. — On the 11th April the coastguard having reported a large steamer ashore on the main, the Life-boat Quiver No. 1 was launched at about 3 A.M., and found the steamer European, of Liverpool, bound from London for Antwerp, with a...
Oxygen Given to Man Trapped In Porthole
AT 1.3 on the afternoon of 8th Decem- ber, 1962, the honorary secretary of the Southend-on-Sea life-boat station, Mr.
P. G. Garon, learnt from the coast- guard that the Dutch motor vessel Temar of 198 tons was on fire. She...
Category: Services
Boy Andrew
Crew snatched to safety seconds before MFV sinks under tow Coxswain/Mechanic Hewitt Clark of Lerwick, Shetland, has been awarded a bar to his Bronze medal following the service to the fishing vessel Boy Andrew pictured in the Spring issue of...
Westward
Crabber swamped in Force 12 windsCoxswain/Mechanic Malcolm MacDonald of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for a service in which the Stornoway lifeboat rescued two men from a crabber which was...
Brothers Pride, of St. John's
NEW BRIGHTON.—About sunset on the 17th January the barque Brothers Pride, of St. John's, bound from that port for Liverpool, while in tow of a steam-tug, got ashore on Taylor's Bank at the entrance of the River Mersey. The weather...
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Islay, Inner Hebrides.—At 4.45 p.m.
on the 12th of April, 1950, the chair- man of the local life-boat station re- ported a mine drifting south through the Sound of Islay directly in the line of shipping using the sound....
Happy Return
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 8.55 on the morning of the 23rd of May, 1959, a message was received from the signal station that the local fishing boat Happy Return with a crew of two had left harbour at noon on the previous day and had not...
Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part IV: Deck and Superstructure
FROM PREVIOUS PARTS of this article it will be remembered that, as the fast slipway boat (FSB) is made of steel, her hull is built upside-down until plating is complete. Here (Figs I and 2) the second of the two prototype FSBs building at...
Category: Articles
The Loss of Life on and Near Our Coasts
A CAREFUL or interested reader of the article in THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL for last November, on the " Wreck Register and Chart for the year ended June 30th, 1884," cannot but be struck by the me- lancholy fact shown by the statistics,...
Category: Articles