LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Brita, a Shetland Type Motor Boat, and Angling Boat Ondermining
Triple call-out NOVEMBER 1, 1986 proved to be a cold day, with a partly overcast sky and anorth-westerly wind, force 5 to 6 blowing along the Essex coast.
At 1107 Thames coastguard alerted the deputy launching authority of...
Life-Boat Services In 1902
Lives saved.
Ada, ketch, of Gloucester—stood by vessel.
Admiral, smack, of Lowestoft (also saved a dog and a cat) ... 9 Algethi, steamer, of Sborebam— rendered assistance.
Annie,...
Category: Services
Book Reviews
• In Small Boat Navigation (Stanley Paul, £2.25), Lt-Commander Pat Hepherd covers a great deal of this wide subject clearly and at times lightheartedly.
To the completely inexperienced reader some of the information...
Category: Articles
Centenary of the Poolbeg Station
A LIFE-BOAT, built in Dublin, was stationed at Poolbeg by the Dublin Ballast Board in 1820, four years before the Institution was founded. It was " at the entrance of the River Liffey ; kept on the quay, near a crane." It is known...
Category: Articles
The Barges Asphodel and Kitty
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.10 in the morning of the 1st of March, 1949, the look-out at Warden Point reported that a barge was making signals of distress three miles east-north-east of the point. The motor life-boat Greater London, Civil...
100 Years Ago. Two Gold Medal Services on the Same Day
THE brig Aurora, coal laden, was wrecked near the mouth of the Tees, on the night of the 14th August, 1829, in a heavy gale and tremendous sea ; and the crew, consisting of ten persons, were saved by the intrepid conduct of Lieutenant Pym, R...
Category: Medals
A Fisherman's Tribute to the Life-Boats
Ox the 30th September the Teosmouth Cardwcll was quickly on the Move. They Motor Life-boat went to the help of a Manned the Boat Beautifull They went . ... , , . , i-i through the surf to the off side. They...
Category: Correspondence
Herring Boats
On the morning of the 30th June a strong N.E. gale sprang up causing a very heavy sea whilst the herring fleet were returning from the fishing grounds.
Owing to the heavy swell and surf at the Harbour entrances it was...
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A few weeks later, on May 28, a pleasure boat was returning from a lighthouse trip when her crew, Second Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Ronald Wheeler spotted a man on the rocks signalling that somebody was injured.
Unable to...
Mountbatten of Burma
ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET the Earl Mountbatten of Burma, who was killed in his motor yacht while on holiday last August, will be remembered, as is his wife, the Countess Mountbatten, as a very good friend of the lifeboat...
Category: Articles