LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gifts from Crews
ON 26th October last, the Ramsgate Motor Life-boat rescued the crew of six of the German schooner Kate Runne, and also helped to save the vessel. The Crew has given the Institution a donation of £8 18s. 1(M. out of the salvage...
Category: Donations
R.A.F. High Speed Launch 124
JANUARY 23RD. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. At 8.15 P.M. flag officer in charge Great Yarmouth asked, through the coastguard, for the services of the life-boat for R.A.F. High Speed Launch 124, which was aground on Scroby Sands...
Etrog
Angle, Pembrokeshire. At eight o'clock on the morning of the 25th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cargo ship was on fire five miles off St. Anne's Head.
The weather was foggy with a...
The Sailing Barge Will Everard
Newhaven, Sussex. At 1.20 a.m. on 29th October, 1965, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted two miles south of the Breakwater. The life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 1.33 in a strong westerly breeze...
The Aberdeen Fishing Boat White Squall
JANUARY 14TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. Information was received at 11.35 in the morning from the naval signal station on Davaar Island that a fishing boat was flying a signal of distress and drifting towards the shore. At 11.45 the motor...
Tank Landing Craft 898
NOVEMBER 18TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
Just after noon the coastguard reported a vessel not under control one and a half miles east of Filey Brig. A fresh northerly wind was blowing, with a rather rough sea. Both coxswains,...
Pilot Me, Provider, Venus, Gallilee and Progress
Whitby, Yorkshire.—Several fishingboats went to sea early on the morning of the 19th January. When they were due to return the sea was breaking over the harbour entrance, which was made more dangerous by the riverwater running very strongly...
Mablethorpe: After Putting Ashore Two Injured Men from the Grounded Barge Almeco
Mablethorpe: After putting ashore two injured men from the grounded barge Almeco, Helmsman William Tuplin (I) and Crew Member Wayne Docking prepare to relaunch the D class inflatable lifeboat to return to the casualty. The third lifeboatman,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A National Fire Service Float
APRIL 7TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 6.25 P.M. the naval control asked for the help of the life-boat with a national fire service float which was in difficulties at the loading pier. A S.W. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The...
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7i feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-cases, which give extra buoyancy...
Category: Articles