LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Ardachy
Troon, Ayrshire.—At 6.15 on the night of the 28th of December, 1949, the Troon pilots telephoned that the Irvine pilots had reported a steamer ashore on the north side of Irvine Bay.
At 6.40 the life-boat Sir David Rich-...
Awards to Honorary Workers. Made Since January 1st, 1947
Honorary Life-Governor.
The following have been appointed Honorary Life-Governors of the Institution and will be presented with a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum and signed by H.R.H.
the Duchess of...
Category: Awards
Lifeboat Services
LIFEBOAT AREA No.1 Extended Christmas WHEN the lifeboat on duty at Islay, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, launched to a coaster at 4.15 a.m. on Christmas Day, 1972, she did not return to her station until 8.30 p.m. that evening, over 16 hours...
Category: Services
The Service to the S.S. "Hopelyn."
By Commander £. S. CARVER, R.D., R.N.R., Inspector of Life-boats for the Eastern District.
ON Friday, 20th October, at about 11 A.M., I arrived at the harbour at Gorleston. A strong gale was blowing from the N.E....
Category: Services
A Sailboard
Carried off shore LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Fleetwood lifeboat station at 1749 on Friday March 23, 1984, that a board sailor was in trouble a short distance from the shore opposite Rossall Hospital. Maroons were...
The Rev. Henry Vyvyan, of Cadgwith
By the death on 16th January of the Rev. Henry Vyvyan, M.A.,of Cadgwith, Cornwall, at the age of eighty-one, the Institution has lost one of the oldest and most distinguished honorary secre- taries of life-boat stations. When, in 1898, he...
Category: Obituaries
Book Reviews
• A new edition of First Aid for Lifeboat Crews has been compiled by the RNLI Medical and Survival Committee and will be issued this summer by authority of the Committee of Management to all lifeboat stations.
This book...
Category: Articles
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part Viii—Ballast Keel
MORE THAN TWO TONS of mild steel are forged into the Rother's ballast keel.
Together with such heavy members as the twin diesel engines, set low in the hull, the purpose of the ballast keel is to lower the centre of...
Category: Articles
A Seabat
Weymouth, Dorset - At 3.15 p.m. on 14th October, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a seabat had capsized five to six hundred yards off the Clock tower.
The boy on board was unable to right her. The...
Two Rowing Boats
The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 3.50 on the 1st of November, 1953, the coxswain reported that two rowing boats with one person in each were in difficulties in Swansea Bay, and that two men who had put off to help them in another boat had...