LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Silver Medal Service at Longhope
ON the night on 9th January signals of a vessel in distress were seen off Tor Ness at the south-west end of the island of Hoy in the Orkneys. She was found later to be the trawler Dorbie of Hull.
It was then ten minutes...
Category: Services
A Canoe
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At 8.37 on the morning of the 28th of August, 1956, the Foreland coastguard tele- phoned that the Newport police had reported that a man had swum ashore at Woodside and that another man had been left clinging to a...
Lifeboats In Action
Injured yachtsman saved from certain deathD A mayday call from an injured sailor who had lost control of a yacht was relayed to Falmouth Coastguard on 29 October 2003.
The Royal Navy (RN) search and rescue helicopter from...
Category: Services
Close to home
Last Summer, RNLI lifeguards and lifeboat crews saved the lives of 82 children and teenagers – but they can’t prevent every drowning, as mum-of-two Bethany Hope reports
Tragedy hit the...
Category: Articles
MANY HAPPY RETURNS
More and more crews have been getting to grips with our most advanced all-weather lifeboat yet. So, as we celebrate 3 years since the first Shannon class launched, what’s the verdict?
12 MONTHS
to produce a new...
Category: Articles
Notes and News
By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
This present number of The Life-Boat, the 280th, is the last but one which will be published in the first century of the Institution's history. When the text...
Category: Articles
The North Coast of Cornwall As a Suitable Position for a Steam Life-Boat
ON the 8th April this year the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION decided to build and station a Steam Life-boat at Padstow, and it is of considerable inte- rest to pass in review the reasons which led the governing body to adopt such a...
Category: Articles
Endeavour and Eliza Bell
ABEBSOCH, NORTH WALES.—The Mabel Louisa Life-boat was launched, at 2.30 A.M.
on the 29th of April, with much difficulty, the night being very dark, the tide far out, and a very heavy sea breaking on the shore. She proceeded...
Telephone
CLOVELLY.—The smack Telephone, of and for Padstow from Newport, coal laden, parted one of her cables in Lundy Eoads, in a" moderate gale from N.N.W.
and a rough sea, on the 3rd March, and was obliged to slip the other...
The Old Warship Cyclops
OLD WARSHIP ADRIFT Holynead, Anglesey.—At 9.5 in the morning of the 24th of March, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that an SOS had been picked up by Seaforth and Plymouth Wireless Stations giving a bearing six miles south-west of...