LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
Beeching's medal At the Great Exhibition of 1851, one James Beeching was awarded the prize bronze medal for a self righting lifeboat.
It is thought this boat was the best if not the first self righting lifeboat to be...
Category: Correspondence
The S.S. Primrose
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BALLYCOTTON JANUARY 30TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. In the early morning of the 27th of January, 1941, many mines came ashore in Ballycotton Bay, on the south coast of Ireland, and four of them exploded, doing...
The American Steamer Byron Darnton, of Baltimore (2)
MARCH 16TH - 17TH. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE, AND PORTPATRICK, WIGTOWNSHIRE. Soon after eleven o’clock on the night of the 16th the Southend coastguard reported to the Campbeltown life-boat station that a ship was ashore...
Services of Life-Boats
HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On the 5th of January, 1854, the brig Earl of Newburgh, of Shields, coal laden, brought up in a sinking state in Coquet Roads, the wind blowing a gale from the eastward at the time. The danger to her crew being...
Category: Services
Notes of the Quarter
THE RNLI INQUIRY into the capsizes of Barra Island and Islay lifeboats off the west coast of Scotland last November, reported on page 6, has concluded that both lifeboats were overwhelmed by heavy breaking seas in violent storm conditions...
Category: Articles
Inshore Rescue Boat Centre-Cowes
THE R.N.L.I. has had a long association with firms at Cowes on the Isle of Wight in the construction of life-boats. The earliest life-boats were built by S. E. Saunders and later Messrs. J. Samuel White. Today life-boat construction is...
Category: Articles
New Life-Boats
HARWICH, ESSEX ; POLKERRIS and FOWEY, CORNWALL BULL BAY, ANGLESEY ; TROON and PORT ERROLL, SCOTLAND. — It having been found necessary to replace the Life-boats at these stations by new boats, the crews were as usual called upon to furnish...
Category: Articles
The British Merchant Seaman
"THE British seaman, though, he might be better, has not grown worse, and is plentiful enough for the requirements of trade." "No case is made out for the inter- ference of Government to increase the number, or improve the...
Category: Articles
1886: the Wreck of the Mexico By Frank Kilroy
ON THE NIGHT of December 9, 1886, the German barque Mexico, bound from Liverpool for Guayaquil, Ecuador, with a general cargo and a crew of 12, was wrecked in the Ribble Estuary on the north west coast of England.
Three...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BACTON, NORFOLK.—The Institution replaced the life-boat on this station last October, by a new boat 33 feet long, rowing 10 oars double-banked, and provided with a transporting-carriage. The old boat, while out on service, had been damaged,...
Category: Articles