LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Richmond Queen
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 12.40 on the afternoon of the 19th of May, 1955, Lloyd's agent asked if the life-boat would put out to the S.S. Richmond Queen and land four men and the skipper's wife from the S.S. Zor, of...
Mrs Mary Stevens
Mrs Mary Stevens, a committee member of Swansea branch for over 20 years. During that time she was minute secretary and flag day organiser and, together with her husband, was awarded a certificate of thanks in 1987..
Category: Obituaries
Life-boats Lost
The Hythe, Kent, life-boat did not return from Dunkirk. The Tynemouth life-boat was destroyed in her house by a bomb. Three new life-boats were destroyed by bombs in the building-yard at Cowes. The life-boats at St.
Helier,...
Category: Articles
Tony
On the morning of the 25th February the local motor fishing boat Tony put to sea, with the life-boat coxswain and two other men on board. Later in the day the weather turned rough, and the second coxswain made enquiries for the boat. The...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
CAHORE, Co. WEXFORD.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently for- warded to the coast of Wexford a new Life-boat, which has been stationed at Cahore, in the place of the former Boat. It is 34 feet long, 8 feet wide, rows 10 oars...
Category: Articles
Lombard
The RYA and Lombard make MARINE FINANCE SIMPLE For over 100 years the RYA has been looking after the interests of boat owners.
For almost as long Lombard has been providing finance to help people get...
Category: Advertisement
CATAMARAN CATASTROPHE
A collision in the English Channel becomes a challenging rescue for Dungeness RNLI
4.10am. Wednesday 8 August. Full-time Coxswain Stuart Adams is woken by his pager. There has been a collision in the English Channel and...
Category: Articles
Seven Men Rescued from Sinking Lightvessel
AT 9.25 on the night of the 21st of September, 1953, the Tenby coast- guard learnt that the pumps in the St.
Gowan lightvessel had stopped work- ing and that she was in danger of sinking. There were seven men on board the...
Category: Services
A Yacht From Dungarvan
JUNE 16TH. - HELVICK HEAD, CO.
WATERFORD. At three in the afternoon a man reported to the honorary secretary that a yacht from Dungarvan was at anchor about a mile and a half east of Helvick Head. A very strong...
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (maximum 28 Ibs., minimum 25 Ibs.) to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support...
Category: Articles