LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Watford
The Motor Life- boat H. F. Bailey, was launched at 2.5 A.M. on 20th March, in a light N.W.
breeze, on receipt of information from the Coastguard that the s.s. Wafford, of London, was aground on Haisborough Sands. The...
News
A new boat on the coastA new lifeboat will enter the RNLI's fleet of lifeboats in 2003. The untrained eye may not be able to spot any difference between the new boat and the one it will replace, but the changes that have been made will...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Ringwood
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 3.57 in the morning on the 4th of August, 1951, the Needles coastguard telephoned the life-boat authorities that the S.S.
Ringwood had reported people from a capsized boat hanging on to Sconce...
The Ferry Boat Tim
Cromarty.—At 3 P.M. on the 3rd May, 1939, a message was received from the Seaforth Highlanders Depot at Fort George that the ferry boat Tim, running from Fort George to Chanory, with the depot band of twelve men on board, had broken down...
The S.S. Baron Yarborough
Workington, Cumberland. — On the 18th of August, 1954, the weather was too bad for the S.S. Baron Yarborough, of Ardrossan, which was at anchor off the harbour, to enter, and she wire- lessed for provisions. As no other boat was...
Nautilus, of South Shields
About 9 o'clock on the evening of Sunday, the 1st October last, during a strong easterly breeze, a brig struck on the Barber Sands, the sea im- mediately breaking over her. This being observed from the shore, the Caister life- boat was...
Held Up at the Lights...
Transporting a 17m Severn hull from the moulders to the fitting-out yard isn't easy at the best of times - but everyone could have done without this particular problem! With the route planned to the last detail and a police escort the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Ardgantock
On the afternoon of the 14th September the s.s. Ardgantock, of Greenock, bound from Ghent to Llan- elly with scrap-iron, ran into heavy seas going down-channel. Her cargo shifted and gave her a dangerous list to starboard. She put about and...
New Life-Boats
ABERYSTWITH, CARDIGANSHIRE.—The Life-boat stationed here many years since has been replaced by a new self-righting boat, which is 35 ft. long by 8 ft. 6 in.
wide and rows ten oars double-banked.
She is...
Category: Inaugurations
Glena and Queen of Britain
SWANSEA.—On the afternoon of the 27th August the coxswain of the Lifeboat received a telegram stating that three vessels were ashore between Swansea and Neath. The wind was then blowing a gale from the W.S.W., and the sea was rough. The...