LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tubular Life-Boat
UNDER the above designation, a " life-boat," or what would be more correctly termed a life-raft, has been constructed by two public- spirited gentlemen, the Messrs. RICHARDSON, of Aber Hirnant, Bala, North Wales, and navigated from...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 28th April, 1927.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Reported the death of the Lord Brownlow, and also of Mr. Henry E. Fargus, Members of the Committee of...
Category: Committee
A Motor Boat (1)
Blyth, Northumberland. At 8.42 on the evening of the 18th of August, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small motor boat was drifting on to Seaton rocks. The life- boat Winston Churchill (Civil Service No. 8) was...
Brighton 175
RNLI lifeboats have been operating from Brighton for 175 years.
Jon Jones finds out how things have changed there over that time… It is true to say that over the years the RNLI, as it celebrates its 175th anniversary, has...
Category: Articles
The Isabel, of Liverpool
On the 18th September, at 5 a.m., a small schooner was observed to be on shore on the North Bar, off Barmouth, on the Welsh coast, her crew being lashed in the rigging. The life-boat of the NA- TIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was, as quickly as...
Claxfield
At 7.30 P.M. on the 14th March the shore attendant telephoned that a pinnace from a Portuguese ship was ashore west of the pier. When the life-boat's crew arrived at the pier head to man the life-boat they found that the pin- nace was...
The Motor Coble Enterprize II
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 7th of December, 1950, the small motor coble Enterprize II had not returned from the fishing grounds.
A strong northerly breeze was blowing causing a dangerous swell on the bar; so...
H.M.S. Brave
Tynemouth, Northumberland.—At 11.5 on the night of the 18th of March, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a ship was on the Black Middens Rocks.
At 11.29 the life-boat Tynesider was launched, accompanied by the honorary...
The Motor Fishing Boats Pilot Me II and Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire.—During the morn- ing of the 8th of May, 1951, there was a strong northerly gale and a heavy swell off Whitby; and it was making the harbour bar very dangerous for the returning local motor fishing boats, Pilot Me II and...
Spray
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 12.58 on the afternoon of the 23rd of June, 1951, the coastguard telephoned. The S.S. Leo had wirelessed that she had seen a small sailing yacht near No.
6 Barrow Buoy which seemed to need help. So...