LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
United States Life-Saving Service
THE number of stations in the United States Life-Saving Service at the close of the year ended the 30th June, 1907, was 278, the same as that on the correspond- ing date in the previous year. Of this number, which was subdivided into thir-...
Category: Articles
Midley Belle
Rising winds RYE AUXILIARY COASTGUARD requested the launch of Rye Harbour lifeboat at 1350 on Saturday October 3 following reports that the 24ft ketch Midley Belle was heading out to sea. It was a squally afternoon with moderate confused...
The RNLI and me: Fern Britton
The TV presenter and author talks Cornwall, creativity and crabbing
What inspired someone who’s spent a lot of their life around London to write about a tiny Cornish fishing village? I’ve loved Cornwall, especially Looe,...
Category: Articles
Yacht Veruna
In mode- rate but hazy weather in the afternoon of the 5th March the steam yacht Varuna, of New York, stranded on the edge of the Gunfleet Sands. At 2.40 P.M.
the haze lifted, and the Coastguard on watch observed the vessel...
Limelight, of Greenock
At 5.17 a.m. on loth October, 1966, three red flares were sighted off Port Ellen light. The life-boat Francis W.
Wotherspoon of Paisley left her moorings at 5.37 in a strong south easterly wind and a rough sea. It was four...
A New D Class Inflatable Lifeboat
A new D class inflatable lifeboat, the gift of Warminster and District branch, was dedicated at Horton and Port Eynon lifeboat station on Monday, May 25. Major D. S. Fan, who handed over thelifeboat, andMrsFarrare in the centre of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Eastbourne's D Class Inflatable
Eastbourne's D class inflatable comes ashore after another service later in the year. On the night that Ian Stringer won his Silver Medal it was pitch black, there was a 6ft sea, the lifeboat's port sponson was holed and she was full... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Safely home
Tynemouth’s Severn class all-weather lifeboat Spirit of Northumberland is pictured towing a disabled fi shing boat to her home port of North Shields on 11 August. Trudie May’s skipper made an emergency call after his salmon nets got caught...
Category: Articles
A Vessel (3)
JANUARY 21ST. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. A ship had been re-ported in distress to the south-east of Ardmore Point, Islay, but nothing was found, and later it was learned that the vessel was not in immediate danger and did not need the help...
Isbjorn
SEPTEMBER 4TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. At 10 A.M. a message was received from the Kilchoman coast-guard that a vessel was ashore on the east side of Mull of Oa, and at 10.30 A.M the reserve motor life-boat Duke of Connaught, on temporary...