LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.M.S. Fossbeck
SEPTEMBER 2ND. - WALMER, KENT. A leading seaman on H.M.S. Fossbeck had his skull fractured when a bucket of ashes fell on him, and at six in the morning the motor life-boat Langham, on temporary duty at the station, was launched, with a...
The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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Deck Plan.
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Body Plan. Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air...
Category: Articles
Waiting for the Lytham Lifeboat
Following the article 'Waiting for the lifeboat', which appeared in the Autumn 1996 issue of The Lifeboat, Lytham coxswain, Paul Heyes, and station honorary secretary, Frank Kilroy, discuss their individual viewpoints regarding...
Category: Articles
Right: Up to the Middle 1930S Families 'sailed' In This Way to Kilnsea for a Spot of Relaxation By Courtesy of 'sun' 'Yorkshire Post' and Topical Press Agency
Right: Up to the middle 1930s families 'sailed' in this way to Kilnsea for a spot of relaxation. - View image in PDF
by courtesy of 'Sun', 'Yorkshire Post' and Topical Press Agency. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
THE LANGDON LEGACY
It's 27 March 1941. Two days after being attacked by a squadron of Luftwaffe bombers, the SS Somali, a large convoy ship, burns a mile off the Northumberland coast. Intent on saving her cargo, crew from a salvage tug board to assess the...
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Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 24 May 1995 show that so far during 1995: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 1,004 times (an average of more than 7 launches a day) 274 lives were saved (an average of 2 a day) Some 11% of...
Category: Articles
Annabell
The fishing coble Annabell, of Newbiggin, was observed in distress about a mile from the shore shortly before 11 A.M. on the 8th January, and it was seen that she was unable to get into the Haven.
The wind had increased to...
Cera
At 8 a.m. on I4th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser, the Cera, was making heavy weather on passage from Calais to Ramsgate. Later the South Goodwin lighrvessel reported that the cruiser had...
The Five Masted Schooner Helen W. Martin
At 6.30 P.M. on the 18th November a telephone message was received, stating that a large vessel had struck a mine and was at anchor about three miles off Orfordness. As the amount of damage was unknown and the sea was rough, the No. 1 Life-...
Grasby
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 21st of January, 1955, the coastguard reported that he had seen red flares three quarters of a mile east-south-east of the coastguard sta- tion. At 5.40 the life-boat Michael Stephens put...