LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
'It’s a good time to hang up my sou’wester. I’m leaving a trim and healthy organisation.'
On the eve of his retirement, the RNLI’s most influential Master Mariner looks back on 40 years at ‘the sharp end’ ...
Michael Vlasto, RNLI Operations...
Category: Articles
The Ex-Mine-Layer Medea
JAN. 23RD. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
On the same day on which the St. Ives motor life-boat was wrecked, the motor life-boat Princess Mary, at Padstow, Cornwall, was damaged on service. She is the heaviest lifeboat in the...
The Prince and Princess of Wales at Newquay, Cornwall
NEVER in the memory of man have there been at Newquay, Cornwall, such "red-letter" days as the 8th and 9th June, 1909, when T.R.H. the Prince and Princess of Wales—travelling as Duke and Duchess of Cornwall—paid a visit to this...
Category: Articles
Dragonfly
Four saved .as their boat is destroyedOn the evening of Saturday, 24 February, four sailors were completing their journey from Liverpool to Rhyl, They were approaching Rhyl when they started to " have trouble with their engine. They cut...
The Late George Lyall, Esq.
IT is again our painful duty to record the death of another old and tried friend, and Member of the Committee of Management, of the Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck, in the person of the late GEORGE...
Category: Obituaries
Mare
Sub-zero escort THE 445-TON CARGO VESSEL Mare, of Honduras, on route from Rotterdam to Dundalk with a cargo of iron ore, ran into difficulties on the night of January 12, 1987 when her load shifted and she developed a 20 to 30 degree list,...
Charles Dixon and the Golden Age of Marine Painting
Charles Dixon and the
Golden Age of Marine
Painting
by Stuart Boyd
Review by Carol Waterkeyn
Charles Dixon was one of the greatest maritime artists, living from 1872 to...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
As many supporters of the life-boat service will be aware, the R.N.L.I. had a serious deficit in 1967. Expenditure amounted to over £1,921,000 and receipts to just over £1,500,000. This has left a gap of more than £410,000....
Category: Articles
Valldemosa (1)
OCTOBER 6TH. - PORT ERIN, AND PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. Shortly after two in the morning the Ramsey coastguard informed both life-boat stations that a ship was in distress W.S.W. of the Chicken Rock.
Port Erin was asked...
The S.S. Fane & Harvest Home
At 9 P.M. on the 24th December the Coastguard reported j that a vessel was ashore on Whitby I Rock. Coxswain Langlands at once.
summoned the Life-boat crew and pro- j ceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the s...