LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Uto
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.-—-The Life-boat Mary Isabella was launched at 7.40 P.M.
on the 28th March, in response to signals of distress shown by the brigantine Uto, of Lillesand, timber laden from Gefle for Ramsey, which was...
April (1)
APRIL MEETING EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX. About seven in the evening of the 21st of March, 1945, two boys, aged 17 and 15, put off from the shore in a home-made canoe. The sea was calm, with some fog. About half a mile off shore, opposite the...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services
LONG SERVICE FOR D CLASS IN HEAVY SURF Injured climbers rescued from foot of cliffs in heavy surf The Helmsman of Bude's inshore lifeboat, Micky Sims, has been awarded the Thanks of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution inscribed on...
Category: Services
Capsize on Loch Ness
Rough conditions on Loch Ness proved too much for a pair of experienced sailors on 12 August. When their dinghy capsized, they were not able to right her as her mast had got stuck on submerged rocks. A passing research and tourist vessel...
Category: Articles
The Steamers Lisburn & Baronminto, and S.S. Patia, Clumber Hall and Alcora
OCTOBER 30TH. - PETERHEAD, AND FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 6.30 in the morning a message was received at Peterhead from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore on the rocks a mile east of Rattray Head, which is about ten...
The Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of ex- Coxswain William Henry Jones, of New Brighton, Cheshire. He was second coxswain from 1921 to 1932 and coxswain from 1932 until the end of 1938, when he retired, on account of age, vith a pension and a...
Category: Articles
Salvage Payments to Life-Boats' Crews
WE revert to this subject, because we think it very important that it should be under- stood, and because a legal decision has re- cently been given in an important case, which will no doubt hereafter have the authority of a precedent, and...
Category: Articles
Louis Sheid and Tajandoen (1)
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT SALCOMBE DEC. 7TH. - SALCOMBE, AND PLYMOUTH, DEVON. Early in the morning the Belgian steamer Louis Sheid, of over 6,000 tons, was in the English Channel on her way to Antwerp. She had a crew of forty-six men. She saw...
Eagle
Shortly be- fore midnight on the 18th-19th March flares were observed about three miles to the north of the Winterton station, and the crew of the No. 2 Life-boat were promptly mustered. There was a strong S. by E. breeze with a heavy ground...
Captain 'Wally' Patch Master of the North Sea Ferries Mv Norwave Receives from Lt Alan Tate Divisional Inspector (North East) a Framed Letter of Thanks Signed By the Chairman of the Rnli
Captain 'Wally' Patch, master of the North Sea Ferries MV Norwave, receives from Lt Alan Tate, divisional inspector (North East), a framed letter of thanks signed by the Chairman of the RNLI. The presentation was made in recognition... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs