LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
September (1)
CROY, DUNURE, AYRSHIRE. While working on Croy shore about 12.30 in the afternoon of the 20th August, 1942, two men saw an aeroplane crash into the sea about half a mile from the shore. The weather was fine and the sea calm. The pilot got...
Category: Services
The Sailing Barque Kaskelot (2)
Three lifeboats stand by sailing barque in severe weather Three lifeboats were launched in winds of up to Force 11 when the Jersey registered sailing barque Kaskelot, with 17 people aboard, reported that her anchor would not hold and that...
TEAMING UP WITH THE AMERICA’S CUP
RNLI supporter and competitive sailor Sir Ben Ainslie (left) takes to the water at Portsmouth this month with his British Challenger, Land Rover BAR, as part of his mission to win the 2017 America’s Cup with his Great Britain crew. And...
Category: Articles
Fac-Simile Reproduction of the Prince of Wales's Life-Boat Centenary Appeal
St JAMES'S PALACE S.W There is not a country with a seaboard whose vessels and seafarers have not, at some time during the past century, been rescued from shipwreck by the British Life-Boat Service I would appeal to all, to...
Category: Advertisement
The Merchant Fleet Auxiliary Albertross
The Life-boat Sarah Austin was called out shortly after 8 A.M. on the 27th December, the Merchant Fleet Auxiliary Albatross having stranded near Holborn Head.
When the Life-boat reached the vessel it was found that it was...
Willie Ridley, of Plymouth
On the 29th January the brig Willie Ridley, of Plymouth, was seen to drag her anchor and drive a considerable distance towards the shore, until she was within a cable's length of the reef of rocks off the Western Beach, the wind blowing...
The Light Self-Righting Type of Motor Life-Boat
The City of Nottingham, stat'cned at Hythe, Kent, 35 feet 6 inches by 8 feet 10 inches, with a 35 h.p. engine.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Death of Two Scottish Coxswains. Walter Fairbairn, of Dunbar and Skateraw, and John Swanson, of Longhope
Walter Fairbairn, of Dunbar and Skateraw, and John Swanson, of Longhope.
THE Institution has lost, in one week, two very distinguished Scottish coxswains. Ex-Coxswain Walter Fair- bairn, of Dunbar and Skateraw,...
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Castillo Tordesillas
Dover, Kent.—At 4.20 on the morn- ing of the 1st of February, 1953, a steamer which had been driven on to the breakwater in a strong north- westerly gale with a rough sea, fired distress rockets. At 4.45 the life-boat Southern Africa left...
The Sailing Boat Lulu
Margate, Kent.—The reserve motor life-boat J. B. Proudfoot. on temporary duty at this station, was .launched at 8.20 A.M. on the 4th July as the coastguard had reported that a small sailing boat, with her sails blown away, was flying a...