LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Surf
LITTLEHAMPTON.— The Life-boat James, Mercer and Elizabeth was launched at 10 P.M. on the 14th August, in a rough sea and a moderate to fresh gale of wind from the S., it having been reported that a vessel was making signals of...
A Dinghy (2)
TAKEN IN TOW At 11.53 a.m. on 20th May, 1966, the police informed the honorary secretary that a man had been seen in difficulties off Kimmeridge ledge. It was requested that the life-boat be launched. A sergeant and a constable embarked in...
Hilda II and Rachel
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—During the morning of the 12th of August, 1951, the local fishing cobles Hilda II and Rachel were at sea. The weather got worse and they felt anxious for them; so at 9.8 the life-boat E.C.J.R. was launched in a...
Concorde Noses Down the Thames for Its Last Journey
One of the RNLI Thames lifeboats turned out to see Concorde making her final journey during April. It was an unusual event because instead of flying at an altitude of 11 miles, Concorde was 'sailing' along the Thames aboard a barge.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jean and Barbara
AUGUST 6TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
Bad weather came on after the fishing boat Jean and Barbara had left harbour. There was a strong north-west wind and very heavy seas, and at 10.5 in the morning the motor life-boat The Cuttle...
Samsal
Stranded yacht AS DUSK FELL ON Tuesday, October 6, 1987, Liverpool Coastguard MRSC advised New Brighton's station honorary secretary, Captain John Billington, that a small yacht, believed to be the 24ft Samsal, had been observed possibly...
Lifeboat Services continued from page 11
continued from page 11 had been washed overboard and into the propeller.
Ten minutes later it became clear that the fishing vessel had got some power to her propeller and she began to make slowly for harbour with the...
Category: Services
Two Naming Ceremonies In Scotland. Aith, Shetlands, and Broughty Ferry, Dundee
Aith, Shetland*, and Droughty Ferry, Dundee.
Two naming ceremonies of new motor life-boats took place in Scotland during September, at Aith in the Shetlands and Broughty Ferry, Dundee. Both life- boats were the gifts of...
Category: Inaugurations
The Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G., and the Lifeboat Cause
At the Annual Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, on the 17th March last, the EARL off SHAFTESBURY was present, and delivered the following interesting speech. He said:— " The Committee of this society has conferred ! upon me...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Ignis
On the 8th De- cember the No. 2 Life-boat, Edward Z.
Dresden, was launched to the assistance of the s.s. lynis, of London, which struck a mine and foundered about four and a half miles east of Aldeburgh. Just before the...