LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Wading into Danger
In the early hours of the morning, a man clung on for dear life, shivering in the near-freezing, fast-flowing river. Would rescuers be able to reach him in time? Rory Stamp reports
It was 10 January 2009 and a man was seen...
Category: Articles
A Bronze Medal Service at Moelfre
ABOUT one-fifteen in the morning of 24th October last a message came from the coastguard to the life-boat station at Moelfre, Anglesey, that a vessel was in distress N.N.E. of Point Lynas. A whole gale was blowing from north by east, and a...
Category: Services
Tijl Uilenspiegel (4)
Six lifeboats in search for missing Belgian trawler The new Tyne class lifeboat at Douglas, Isle of Man, had a testing time during her first service, in a search for a missing Belgian trawler which lasted for 11 hours in Force 7 winds and...
Life-Boats and Shipwrecks
TO THE EDITOR Or THE TIMES.
SIR The severe loss of life occasioned by shipwrecks off the coasts of the United Kingdom during the last year ought to direct the attention of every friend of humanity to the most efficacious...
Category: Correspondence
Adventures of An Old Life-Boat
IN 1901 the Institution stationed at Queenstown, on the south coast of Ireland, a pulling and sailing life-boat of the Watson type, 43 feet long, 12 feet 6 inches in beam, with a draught of 37f inches. She was named James Stevens No. 20, and...
Category: Articles
THE FORCE BEHIND THE LAUNCH
While many lifeboats lie afloat in harbours, primed to head straight out to sea, others sit in boathouses on the shore. So, what – and who – is involved when it comes to getting an all-weather craft to sea in an...
Category: Articles
Gallantry In Galway Bay. Award of Seven Bronze Medals
ON the night of August 16th, 1938, the steam trawler Nogi, of London, went ashore about 300 yards N.W. of the lighthouse on Straw Island, which lies off Inishmore, one of the Aran Islands in Galway Bay, on the west coast of Ireland. A strong...
Category: Services
The Factory Ship Pionersk
67 saved from stranded factory ship in Storm Force winds Lerwick's Arun class lifeboat Soldian was involved in another service to a Russian factory ship on 31 October 1994, another service in very bad weather and involving the evacuation...
Bookshelf
Lifeboat station histories The History of the Sheerness Lifeboats by Jeff Morris published by the author at £2.50 This, the latest of the author's comprehensive booklets on RNLI stations, was published in late 1996 when Sheerness...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
South West Division Among rocks A YACHT firing red flares near Green Island was reported by Police HQ at 0326 on Saturday September 3, 1983, to the deputy assistant harbour master at St Helier, who is also deputy launching authority of St...
Category: Services