LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Life-Boats
MABLETHORPE (LINCOLNSHIRE).—In a former number of the Life-boat Journal (217), it was mentioned that the boat at this station had been replaced by a new one of the Liverpool type, 36 ft.
long by 9 ft. wide, and that she was...
Category: Inaugurations
Fidget
Yacht sinks in gale THE 30ft yacht. Fidget, of stout construction, was on passage from Gosport to Plymouth on the morning of Sunday August 11, 1985, when she hit a huge crest south of Gara Rock, near Salcombe.
Within one...
Seaway Endeavour
Nine rescued from ketch ashore on sands near Chichester Bar A difficult service which led to the rescue of nine people from a yacht aground on the East Pole Sands, just outside Chichester Harbour, has led to the chairman of the RNLI sending...
Winter Storms
4Extreme weather in the fi rst weeks of 2008 meant a busy time for several lifeboat stations. Stornoway’s Severn class lifeboat Tom Sanderson was out in force 11 winds, classed a violent storm, on 1 February. The trawler Spinningdale had run...
Category: Articles
Mr Fenwick Aitken's Model of a 37-Foot Oakley Made to One-Quarter Scale
Mr. Fenwick Aitken's model of a 37-foot Oakley made to one-quarter scale.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Our Inland Branches. Settle
DOES our reader know where Settle is, or the description of country that has to be traversed in making the journey to this part of England ? The question will pro- bably be answered in the negative, as it is a small market town of some 2000...
Category: Articles
Floralie (2)
French trawler THE FRENCH TRAWLER Floralie, 30 miles off Trevose Head on a bearing of 287°, reported in the early hours of Friday October 17, 1980, that she had a serious leak and needed immediate assistance. HMS Pollington, 40 miles...
Antwerp Maritime Exhibition and Life-Saving Congress
AN International Maritime and Colonial Exhibition has been held at Antwerp this year, from April to October, on the occasion of the Centenary Celebrations of the Declaration of Belgian Independ- ence. Great Britain was one of the principal...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st December, 1956 80,578 Notes of the Quarter THE year 1956 was one in which greater...
Category: Articles
Four Drifters
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 8.39 on the evening of the 7th of October, 1952, the Gorleston coastguard telephoned that a drifter was firing red rockets about a mile east-south-east of the coastguard station, and at 8.52 the life...