LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
First Rescue Ever from a Hovercraft
ON the 17th September, 1962, a service of a unique kind was carried out when for the first time a rescue was effected by life-boat from a hovercraft. The hovercraft was the first to be used on public service in this country and operated...
Category: Services
The S.S.. Northumberland
NEWBIGGIN.—At about 5 P.M. on, the 14th October the ss. Northumberland, of Newcastle, ran into the bay for shelter during a very severe storm and very high sea. In reply to signals of distress shown by her the Life-boat William Hop- Teinson...
Reaper
Seven saved ...along with an historic boatIn the early hours of 8 August 2001, the historic fishing vessel Reaper was on passage from Anstruther to Hartlepool in gale force conditions and rough seas. The 100-year-old herring drifter was...
Sweet Reason
Ramsgate, Kent. At 7.50 p.m. on 2ist August, 1965, a local yacht club told the honorary secretary that three yachts were missing in a race. One was thought to be dismasted five miles inside the North Goodwin lightvessel. The life-boat...
White and Black: Two Heroes
By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
I HOPE that no one who receives this issue of The Life-Boat will fail to read the story of Victor Rojas, well named " The Providence of the Shipwrecked,"...
Category: Articles
Lionel Lukin - Lifeboat Inventor By Frank Martin
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the patenting of Lionel Lukin's 'unimmergible boat', the first craft ever to be designed specifically for saving human life at sea. Frank Martin, honorary treasurer of the Hythe branch of...
Category: Articles
A New Life-Boat Fleet
Early in the war the building of motor life-boats almost ceased, because of the demands on the shipyards made by the fighting services. During the five years and eight months of war, 17 new life-boats were sent to the coast. In normal years...
Category: Articles
Dobell
— At 5.30 P.M. on 25th September it was reported to the Honorary Secretary that the little fishing smack Dobell, of Carnarvon, was out in Barmouth Bay and was making for port, the weather having suddenly become squally and boisterous, and...
Focus on . . . . Great Yarmouth and Gorleston
There she lies in the Gorleston boathouse—a sturdy, tubular creature, greyblack like the seals on the nearby Scroby sands who, at her approach, dive and slither into the sea, splashing noisily.
Jack Bryan, mechanic of the...
Category: Articles
Photographic Proof of the Unlikely Rumour That a Philanthropic Gorilla Was Spotted at the Earls Court Boat Show Whether It Was Fear That Encouraged the Public to Fill His Box Or Whether It Was the I
Photographic proof of the unlikely rumour that a philanthropic gorilla was spotted at the Earls Court Boat Show. Whether it was fear that encouraged the public to fill his box or whether it was the irresistible music of his pirate captor is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs