LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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NOVEMBER 8TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.
Star shells fired from a naval vessel had been mistaken for distress signals. - Rewards, £12 2s..
The Gales of May and June
THE winter of 1859-60 will command a mournful distinction in meteorological annals. Other winters may be found, perhaps, of equal severity and duration ; nor would it be difficult, we dare say, to produce examples of springs as backward as...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ST. AGNES, SCILLT ISLANDS. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a new Life-boat establishment at Priglis Bay, St. Agnes, it being considered very desirable to place a second Life-boat on the Scilly Islands. The new boat is...
Category: Articles
The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Nicholas
Over mud WHILE PAYING a routine visit to Spurn Coastguard lookout on Saturday December 6, 1980, Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan of Humber lifeboat station was told, at 1912, that Hull Radio had reported two red flares sighted in the Foul...
Lionel Lukin - Lifeboat Inventor By Frank Martin
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the patenting of Lionel Lukin's 'unimmergible boat', the first craft ever to be designed specifically for saving human life at sea. Frank Martin, honorary treasurer of the Hythe branch of...
Category: Articles
Henry Alston Hewat at Mallaig
Henry Alston Hewatai Mallaig Mallaig's new all-weather Severn class lifeboat was named after the father of Catherine Hewat of Glasgow, who funded the majority of the £1,8m lifeboat with a bequest in excess of £1 m. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter
THE remarkable variety of the services which life-boat crews are called upon to perform today is clearly shown in the accounts received from the stations during the spring and early summer of this year and recorded in these...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
ANYONE who has studied with care the transcript of evidence before the Sheriff's Court in Aberdeen, which investigated the causes of the capsize of the Fraserburgh life-boat last January, and the findings of the court itself, must be...
Category: Articles
Pam
Minehead, Somerset. At 9.50 on the evening of the 8th of August, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a dismasted yacht appeared to be broken down and in need of help in Bridgwater Bay. Further enquiries were made and,...
The Motor Fishing Vessels Easter Morn and Galilee
ESCORTED VESSELS Whitby, Yorkshire. At 11 a.m. on 3rd January, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that two motor fishing vessels, the Easter Morn and Galilee, were at sea in deteriorating weather conditions. The life-boat...