LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SOUTHPORT.—In accordance with the wishes of the crew a second Life-boat has been placed at this station. It is a large sailing boat, 42 feet long, and 13£ feet wide, and is constructed, in conformity with the views of a special...
Category: Articles
Hidden Treasure
Our islands have a great heritage of constructing ocean-going vessels. But their shipbuilding glory days are fading – except where the RNLI is concerned
At the end of the 1800s, the UK was constructing over half of the...
Category: Articles
June
Launches 23 Lives rescued 8 JUNE 4TH. - HOWTH, CO. DUBLIN. At 6.30 in the evening a yacht was seen endeavouring to make Howth, and the keeper of the Baily Lighthouse was asked to keep a watch on her. About nine o’clock he telephoned that the...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services from Page 12
from page 12 were sent to Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Anthony G. Hawkins, Second Assistant Mechanic Roy W.
Couzens and Crew Members John J.
Smith, David Williams, Geoffrey I.
Buckland and...
Category: Services
Letters
Disabled sloop in storm On September 14, 1975, we, the crew of the yacht Chayka of Ardgour which was in distress off the Needles, were rescued by the Yarmouth lifeboat.
No words or gestures can adequately express the deep...
Category: Correspondence
The Fundraisers
Battle royal The peace of the Glasgow afternoon was shattered by the sound of rocket and gunfire and the waiting crowd watched with tense expectation. A variety of lifeboats stood by waiting for the call as the Russian battle fleet closed in...
Category: Articles
Spartan
The Reculvers Coastguard telephoned at 1.45 A.M. oa the 12th April that a vessel in the Gore Channel, east of Hook Sand, was burning flares for help. A moderate N.W. by N.
gale was blowing with a rough sea. The Motor...
Dingaling (1)
Atlantics join forces to save yacht crew on Chichester Bar The Institution's Bronze medal for bravery has been awarded to crew member Graham Raines of the Hayling Island lifeboat crew following a very difficult rescue involving two...
Lacon's Safety Plan for Lowering a Ship's Boats at Sea
WHILST we are doing all in our power to guard our coasts with life-boats ready to save life in the event of a vessel being stranded on our shores, we must not lose sight of the fact that the greatest loss of life among our own countrymen,...
Category: Articles
The Converted Ship's Boat Samartha
Teesmouth, Yorkshire. At 11.20 on the morning of the 18th June, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a flare had been seen off Redcar. A fresh south-westerly wind was blowing with a moderate sea. At 12.5 the life-boat...