LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sarah Macdonald
At 12.30 P.M. on the 7th October the Coastguard received a telephone mes- sage from the Smalls Lighthouse stating that a schooner had struck a reef close by and was likely to become a total wreck; also that the crew had taken to the...
A Naval Pinnace
FEBRUARY 14TH. - LYTHAM - ST. ANNE’S, LANCASHIRE. A naval pinnace was adrift and on fire at night with no one on board, but nothing was found. - Expenses paid by the Admiralty.
Wrecks
DURING the past week ending 16th December, 49 wrecks have been reported—making a total for the present year of 3,208.—Shipping Gazette.
Such is the brief but forcible record which has caught our eye as we were going to...
Category: Articles
A Hundred Years Ago
AN invention has recently been brought to perfection, and patented, which we think we may fairly charac- terize as one of the most ingenious of modern times. This invention, which is the production of Mr. J. Boydell, an engineer of...
Category: Articles
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1878
THOMAS CHAPMAN, ESQ., F.R.S., V.P., CHAIRMAN OF THE INSTITUTION, IN THE CHAIR.
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the Institution for the current year:—(vide next...
Category: Meetings
Alan Bowers
MARCH 1991 Alan Bowers, administrative officer at Port Erin lifeboat station from 1987 to February 1991 and deputy launching authority from 1971 to 1988. Mr Bowers was also chairman of the station from 1982 to 1987 and awarded a silver badge...
Category: Obituaries
The Tyne (Right) and Mersey
self-righting calculations. This is one reason why the Arun and FAB 3 (left) have a proportionally greater superstructure volume than the smaller classes of lifeboat such as the Tyne (right) and Mersey - whose deck is low enough to recover... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Double grounding
17 September 2011: Hayling Island lifeboat crew assess the situation at the scene of a grounded yacht. The yacht’s crew were taken back to the station to await the rising tide. This was Hayling Island’s second call out to a grounded yacht...
Category: Articles
A Boat
Rough ride in race A SMALL BOAT was sighted off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, on September 10, 1972, with engine broken down and crew waving. This led to the Bridlington ILB being sent as low water on a spring tide at Flamborough prevented...
Lady Sophia
THREE TAKEN OFF At 9.30 a.m. on i6th August, 19645 Dublin harbour office told the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulty south of Pigeon House. There was a fresh south-easterly wind with a choppy sea and an ebbing tide. At 9.53...