LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Faster Stronger Better
In 2013, we’ll start replacing Mersey class lifeboats with the next generation of all-weather lifeboat – the Shannon class. At £1.5M a piece, why are we doing it?
The Mersey class lifeboat...
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Netta Croan
Fire at sea A TRAWLER on fire, not under control, but under way about four miles north east of Aberdeen: that was the message received from HM Coastguard at 2055 on Saturday, April 13, by the honorary secretary, Aberdeen. The crew were...
Kestrel
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 1.30 P.M.
on the 2nd October, 1938, a small boat near the edge of the Burbo Bank in the Rock Channel was seen to be flying a distress signal. A fresh, squally west breeze was blowing, with a...
Pride of the Isles
GORLESTON.—At 11.30 P.M., on the 4th May, guns were fired by the St. Nicholas Lightship, in response to which the Lifeboat Leicester immediately put off and proceeded to the Scroby Sand. The weather at the time was thick, with rain; the wind...
Georgia
RAMSGATE.— Signal guns were heard from the Goodwin Sands at 6 o'clock on the morning of the 20th March. The Bradford and Vulcan were at once manned and left the harbour, proceeded to the Sands, and ultimately found the barque Georgia, of...
American Gold Medal for the Institution
THE Institution has been awarded the " Gold Life-saving Medal of Honor " of the United States of America, which was personally presented on 25th June by Commander C. D. Hinckley, of the U.S.
Coast Guard, who had...
Category: Awards
The S.S. Canberra
Routine - but always appreciatedFalmouth's Arun class lifeboat Elizabeth Ann carried out a service on 3 June 1992 which although in fine weather and described by the station honorary secretary as 'routine' led to words of praise...
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
LI. HASTINGS.—The Charles Arkcoll, 34 feet by 8 feet 3 inches, 10 oars.
" Thou old sea town, crouching beneath the rocks, Like a strong lion waiting for his prey— Where are thy river, harbour, and the docks, In which...
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Building Up to the Millennium Ii
The RNLI's Shoreworks Manager Howard Richings continues his look at the Institution's shore facilities T;• he effects of coastal geology on the costs of operating the lifeboat service may not be immediately apparent, but the relative...
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Emperor
PORTHDINLLAEN.—The schooner Emperor, of Beaumaris, bound from Cork for Port Dinorwic, in ballast, showed a signal of distress while lying at anchor in the bay during a strong N.E. wind, and a heavy sea, on the 2nd November. The Life-boat,...