LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
Letter of the quarter Memorial arboretum goes ahead Following on from the appeal in the letters page of the winter issue of the Lifeboat, I am pteased to announce that we have reached our target of £5,000. We have secured a plot at the...
Category: Correspondence
The Experimental Motor Life-Boats
IN July, 1905, as will be seen by reference to the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL for November, 1905, page 551, it was decided that three Life-boats should be installed with petrol motors, viz., Walton-on-the-Naze, Norfolk and Suffolk type, 43 ft. by 12...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Lady Wolseley (2)
RAMSGATE, NORTH DEAL AND BROADSTAIRS.
—In response to a telephone message and signals fired by light-vessels, the Life-boat Bradford, in tow of the steamtug Aid, left Ramsgate harbour, and the Life-boats Mary Somerville...
Sunbeam
On returning to port at about 9 P.M. on the 4th January a drifter reported that another drifter, Sunbeam, belonging to Torquay, but fishing from Brixham, had asked her to stand by, as her engine had failed.
The Sunbeam was...
Expedite
A fine service was performed by the Laetitia, the Life-boat stationed here, on the 13th November. the morning of that day she went off to tow of the steam-tug Bairibow to a Norwegian vessel named Expedite, belong- Iing to Drobeck, which had...
Colombo
WALMER.—At about 3.15 A.M. on the 28th June, it was reported that a ship was ashore on the Goodwin Sands. The Life-boat Centurion accordingly proceeded to the inner part of the South Sand Head, and found the ship Colombo, of Greenock, ashore...
Florence Myal
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 2.15 A.M.
on the 4th May, 1938, the coastguard reported a light about six miles S.W.
by S. Watch was kept, and after some time it was decided to send out the motor life-boat...
A Sailing Dinghy
Dinghy and catamaran A TELEPHONE MESSAGE from HM CoaStguard at 1410 on Saturday March 28 informed Mudeford lifeboat station that a sailing dinghy had capsized on Mudeford sand bar; her mast was broken and she was in difficulties. A moderate...
Self Righting Explained By Stuart Welford
WHAT ARE THE FORCES WHICH, WHEN HARNESSED, WILL MAKE A BOAT RIGHT HERSELF? by Stuart Welford, MiMechE MRINA Research and Development Officer, RNLITHE RNLI FLEET has included selfrighting lifeboats for well over one hundred years—since 1851...
Category: Articles
Accounts of Services by Life-boats (4)
Launches 18. Lives rescued 30.
MAY 3RD. - CROMARTY. At 3 P.M. a message was received from the Seaforth Highlanders Depot at Fort George that the ferry boat Tim, running from Fort George to Chanory, with the depot band of...
Category: Services