LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters to the Editor
SIR. - Since it would appear that no record has been made of the Institu- tion's earliest effort at mechanization, I am most interested in preparing a paper covering the inception of the steam life-boat; its design; building and method...
Category: Correspondence
Annalivia
A YACHT UNDER OBSERVATION in the River Mersey approach channel in the vicinity of C13 Buoy was reported to the honorary secretary of New Brighton ILB station by Formby Coastguard at 1655 on Saturday, October 23, 1976. It was foreseen that,...
Lone Surfer Saved In Near Gale
(Top, this page) The surfer is snatched to safety, very cold and frightened…. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter
THE 37-feet life-boat, which is described in detail on page 91, adds one more development to an impressive list of major improvements in the design and construction of life-boats and life-saving equipment in the past six or seven...
Category: Articles
Charles
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT WHITBY FEBRUARY 3RD. - WHITBY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
At nine o’clock at night the coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station at Whitby that a vessel was ashore near Saltwick. The tide was...
An Artist's Memories of the Life-Boat Service. From the Bay of Naples to Solway Firth
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 138 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 29 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to September 30th, 1937 - 65,320 An Artist's Memories of the Life-boat Service From...
Category: Articles
The Dutch Oil Tanker Georgia (1)
AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...
Mazurka, of Dundee
Early on the morning of the 9th March, signals of dis- tress were seen binning in the direction of the Cross Sand. The alarm was at once given, and the Winterton life-boat was con- veyed along the beach and launched; but the wind and sea...
Zona, Pisces
RESCUE IN WORST WEATHER FOR 20 YEARS WHEN on 20th November, 1971, red flares were sighted in the area of the Wallet Spitway buoy, the Clacton, Essex, life-boat Valentine Wyndham- Quin was launched at 6.17 p.m. The wind was south south west...
Hope, of Aberystwith
The services of this valuable life-boat were again called into requisition on the evening of the 23rd December under the following circumstances:—A light being observed on the South Bank while it was blowing fresh from the S.W., the...