LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Highwave
JANUARY 29TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At about 6.30 P.M. the coastguard reported a steamer burning flares some three miles N.E. of the Knock Lightship.
A fresh E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea and snow...
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The Spanish Motor Fishing Vessel Redondela
LANGUAGE DIFFICULTIES Islay, Inner Hebrides. At about i a.m. on 24th March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Spanish motor fishing vessel Redondela of Vigo was aground on Rhuda-na-Leacon three miles south of...
Coxswain/Mechanic Ralston of Mallaig Receives His Bronze Medal for the Service to the Fishing Vessel Galilean from Countess Mountbatten of Burma at the 1989 Presentat
Coxswain/Mechanic Ralston of Mallaig receives his Bronze medal for the service to the fishing vessel Galilean from Countess Mountbatten of Burma at the 1989 presentation of awards ceremony.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pride of Ballinskelligs
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 5.38 in the evening on the 22nd of February, 1950, the coxswain saw a fishing boat drifting on to the rocks off Cromwell Point, clearly in need of prompt help. Seven minutes later the life-boat...
The Motor Fishing Vessels Elizabeth Taylor and Incentive
Whitby, Yorkshire. — About 8.45 on the night of the 28th of September, 1951, news was picked up by wireless that two fishing boats had been in collision eight miles off Whitby to the east. They needed help; and at nine o'clock the No. 1...
The New Deputy-Secretary
The new deputy-secretary is Lieut.-Col. C. Stewart Watson, of the Royal Marines. He was educated at Cheltenham College and has specialised in naval gunnery. First as head ot the School of Naval Gunnery at Portsmouth, and then as...
Category: Articles
On 927 Grace Darling, Part of the National Lifeboat Collection and Now at the Historic Dockyard In Chatham Awaiting Display to the Public Again.
ON 927 Grace Darling, part of the national lifeboat collection and now at the Historic Dockyard in Chatham awaiting display to the public again.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Institution's Treasurer
THE Earl of Harrowby, who has been the Institution's treasurer since 1899, resigned in November, 1946, and the Duke of Montrose, chairman of the Scottish Life-boat Council, and a vicepresident of the Institution has accepted the...
Category: Articles
'A twist of fate'
It’s Saturday 14 June, the day before Father’s Day. A gentle swell is building off Redcar, Cleveland. Two boats, each carrying a father and son, are out on fishing trips. The crew of one vessel will soon owe the other their...
Category: Articles