LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Don't Rock the Boat
THIS article appeared in The Field on 8th April and is reproduced by permission of The Field'?, editor. We consider it a most helpful, informative and balanced article, although the comment about the attitude of crews towards...
Category: Articles
The Cork Waist Life-Belt
N the 22nd number of this Journal we described these life-belts, with which all the life-boat crews in connexion with the NA- TIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION are provided, and which they are required to wear on every occasion of their going...
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A Motor Launch
On the morning of the 23rd December, Coxswain Cook was called up by a messenger, who reported that a motor launch was on the rocks near the Lower Sandgate Road. The crew of the Life-boat were assembled and the boat proceeded to the...
A Motor Trawler
On the 26th of November, 1954, the Valentia, Co. Kerry, life-boat put out in a whole north-westerly gale to go to the help of a motor trawler. The next day, with the help of a fishing boat, the life-boat succeeded in towing the trawler from...
The Fish Steamer Fulmar
On the morniag of the 16th February the fish-steamer Fulmar, of Wexford, was observed ashore on the Dogger Bank.
The wind was moderate, but the sea was rough, due to the strong S.S.W.
gale of the previous...
Spray
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 1.10 on the afternoon of the 9th of December, 1958, a message was received that a small motor boat was being driven ashore west of Portmagee. At 1.30 the life- boat Rowland Watts put out in a rough sea. There was a...
Calypso V
St. Peter Port, Guernsey - At 12.15 a.m. on 7th July, 1969, following reports of flares seen off the north east end of the island of Guernsey, information was received that the yacht Calypso V, with a crew of four, was in difficulties three...
Right: The Skegness Lifeboat In An Ice Field In The North Sea Searching For The Dutch Coaster Tuko
Right:The Skegness lifeboat in an ice field in the North Sea searching for the Dutch coaster Tuko.The crew eventually found her only to discover she was not in danger.The lifeboat returned to Skegness after nine hours. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hero and Louisa
MARGATE.—On the 24th November, during a strong gale increasing to a hurricane from E.N.E., with heavy squalls of rain and sleet, and a high sea, at about 9.30 p.n.,the Quiver Life-boat was launched in reply to signals of distress, and...