LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
'We're really happy to be part of the RNLI'
Meet some of the people who are getting our new lifesaving services off the ground
Portishead lifeboat has been running as an independent rescue service since The...
Category: Articles
Prince Lewellen & The Scotch Fishing Craft Victoria
In the early morning of the 6th September a tele- phone message was received stating that two steamers had been in collision about four miles to the southward of the Point, and that one was apparently sinking. The crew of the No. 1 Life-...
"Saved at Last," A Tale of the Ramsgate Life-Boat
CHAP, I.—LIFE-BOAT WEATHER AND LIFE- BOAT WORK
Do we not often find, in the winter's even-ing, that our warm rooms seem more cosy, and the flames lap more brightly and closely round the half-consumed log, as a...
Category: Articles
The Admiralty Torpedo Craft C.T.21
JANUARY 23RD. - DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN, AND PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM At 2.6 in the afternoon the Bangor coastguard reported a vessel in distress off Ballywhlskin.
There was a thick fog, but the sea was...
Lady Dalhousie
POBTHOUSTOCK, COXSWAIN,.—At midnight on the 13th April, during a strong breeze from the N.E., the weather at the same time being hazy, it was reported that a large steamer had struck on the Manacles Boots. The Mary Ann Storey Life-boat...
Letters
It pays to say thank you A year ago last September I went on a sequence dance holiday to Paignton, in Devon, with the Rita Carrudus School of Dancing, of Harlington, Middlesex. During the holiday, money was collected by means of raffles,...
Category: Correspondence
Arun Development
SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES gathering momentum over the past 30 years have pushed back the horizon of the seafaring man.
High-powered marine diesel engines, allied with modern hull design, have given him speed with reliability...
Category: Articles
A Skilful Rescue In Unknown Waters
AT 12.45 on the afternoon of the 17th of September, 1952 the coastguard telephoned the life-boat station at Stornoway in the Outer Hebrides that the crew of a local motor boat, the Mayflower, were marooned on rocks.
The...
Category: Services
Launching and Recovery PART II: BEACH LAUNCH by Edward Wake-Walker RNLI Assistant Public Relations Officer (London)
ON A CLEAR DAY at Walmer the unaccustomed visitor can be forgiven for doubting his own knowledge of geography when he sees the bold outline of France, seemingly only a pebble's throw across the curving surface of the English Channel....
Category: Articles
The Mail Steamer St. Sunniva
Two Wrecks in the Shetlands.
Stromness Motor Life-boat's Journeys of 260 and 240 Miles.
DURING March and April two vessels were wrecked on the Shetland Islands.
They were both vessels...