LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
April (1)
APRIL MEETING MONTROSE, ANGUS. At about 10 in the morning of the 24th March, 1942, the lifeboat coxswain and two other men were about to enter harbour in a motor boat, when they saw an aeroplane fall into the sea. The sea was smooth and a...
Category: Services
United States Life-Saving Service
THE Life-Saving Service of the United States comprised at the close of the fiscal year which ended on the 30th June, 1904, 273 stations, no increase in the number having taken place during the year. Of those stations 196 were situated on the...
Category: Articles
M. Arnus
On the South and East Coasts.
On the south coast the Weymouth Motor Life-boat was out for nearly six hours, from 6.30 in the evening until after midnight, in response to the S.U.S.
of the steam-tanker M....
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Blackpool, Lancashire.—During the afternoon of the 25th July two men were out in a small boat attending on people...
Category: Services
Pamir (2)
Margate, Kent, Walton and Frinton, Essex, and Ramsgate, Kent.—At 1.33 in the morning of the 18th of January, 1952, the Margate coastguard telephon- ed the Margate life-boat station that the North Foreland Radio Station had reported a message...
Westwind of Stour (1)
Three yachtsmen saved from Buxey Sands in heavy weather The crew of Clacton's relief Atlantic 21 and Walton and Frinton's Solent lifeboats have received letters of thanks from the RNLI's chief of operations following a joint...
January (1)
JANUARY MEETING NAIRN, MORAYSHIRE. About 11.15 on the night of the 13th of November, 1945, an R.A.F. Warwick aeroplane was seen by the Lossiemouth coastguard to crash in the sea in flames, six to eight miles in a north-easterly direction...
Category: Services
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
METHIL and BUCKHAVEN, FIFESHIRE— I On the application of the local residents a new Life-boat station has been formed at Buckhaven, on the north side of the Firth of Forth, where there are plenty of fishermen available to work the...
Category: Articles
Trouble on the Trap
The following account by Commander Erroll Bruce, R.N.(Retd. editor ofMotor Boat and Yachting, appeared in the edition for i8th September, 1964, and is reproduced with his kind permission. He is a former member of the Longhope life-boat crew...
Category: Articles
Oscar,the St. Nicholas Light-ship, a Steamer, a Trawler
The Christmas Gales.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...