LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of Life-Boats
BARMOUTH.—On the 18th September, at 5 a.m., a small schooner was observed to be on shore on the North Bar, off Barmouth, on the Welsh coast, her crew being lashed in the rigging. The life-boat of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was, as...
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This Way Up
The ability of a modern lifeboat to self-right after a capsize is a valuable safety feature, but just how is this achieved? Mike Floyd sets out to explain the principles behind a modern self-righting lifeboat without recourse to diagrams or...
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Y Draig
On the morning of the 2nd April the yacht Y Draig, of Portmadoc, left Aberyst- wyth harbour for a cruise in the bay.
There were four persons on board.
The wind was blowing fresh from the E.N.E. By 11 A.M...
Thornton, of New York
On the 6th December, the ship Thornton, of New York, was stranded on the West Middle Sand off Liverpool during a fresh gale of wind, and subsequently became a total wreck. The Willie and Arthur life- boat went off, and brought ashore the...
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BAD WEATHER CLIFF RESCUE WHEN, on 8th February, 1972, Mr J. J. Adams, honorary secretary, Hastings, Sussex, was told by the police at about 2.15 p.m. that a man had fallen over the cliff to the east of the harbour at a point known as...
A Steamer (8)
MAY 2ND. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A steamer had run aground, but got off and did not need help. - Rewards, £14 1s..
Vineta
Lifeboatman overboard during long service to stricken coaster Members of the Scarborough lifeboat crew hauled their own Second Coxswain, John Trotter, to safety aboard their new Mersey class lifeboat Fanny Victoria Wilkinson and Frank Stubbs...
The Dredger Walter Glynn
A fierce westerly gale swept the Mersey during the early hours of the 27th August, and at about 4 A.M. the large dredger Walter Glynn, belonging to the Docks and Harbour Board, was capsized near the North Wall, Liverpool. She had a crew of...
Alwena
Rhyl, Flintshire.—At 5.55 on the even- ing of the 4th of August, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that a motor launch was flying distress signals off the Point of Air lighthouse, and at 6.30 the life-boat Anthony Robert Marshall was...
Membership News
Governors ... Shoreline... Storm Force.. Maximise your Membership The active membership of the Institution continues to grow, with the latest figures showing almost 28,000 Governors and some 140,000 Shoreline members.
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