LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
2 Shields North Country Class Lifeboat
2 Shields North Country class lifeboat was typical of the lifeboats used around the time the Lifeboat journal was first published.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Schooners and A Brig
Two days later (on the 18th October) two schooners and a brig were observed off the harbour, a " strong gale " from the S.E. blowing, with a "very heavy sea" running. These vessels were the schooner Anne, of Montrose,...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND AND NEWBIGGIN, ABERDEENSHIRE.—THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has forwarded new Life-boats to Blyth and Newburgh to take the place of Life-boats sent there some years since. Each boat is 31 feet long, 1 feet...
Category: Articles
A Steamer
In response to signals of distress the Berwick-on-Tweed Life-boat Matthew Simpson put to sea shortly after 4 A.M.
on the 10th November, to assist a motor-boat which was dragging her anchors. The motor-boat had anchored in...
Upas
On the 18th March, during a strong N. gale with snow showers, the Motor Life-boat William and Laura was called out to the assistance of the steamer Upas, of Newry. When the vessel was five miles south of the Skullmartin Light- ship her cargo...
Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
THE carriage consists of a fore and main body. The latter is formed of a keelway and of side or bilgeways attached to the keelway, and...
Category: Articles
Lady Molly
FOUR WOMEN AND A DOG TAKEN OFF YACHT Margate, Kent. At 7.47 on the evening of the 8th July, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had fired two distress signals off Botany Bay. The life-boat North Foreland (Civil...
Laura
About 1 A.M.
oil the 9th September, a telephone message was received from the Shipwash Light-vessel, stating that the brigantine Laura, of Whitstable, had been in collision with the Light-vessel, and was then drifting...
Puffin
About 3.15 P.M. on the 18th March, the yawl | Puffin, of Wexford, with a crew of six hands, grounded on the west side of the bar, when coming into port from the fishing-grounds. The crew of the Life- boat James Stevens No. 15 were at once...
Eagle
Shortly be- fore midnight on the 18th-19th March flares were observed about three miles to the north of the Winterton station, and the crew of the No. 2 Life-boat were promptly mustered. There was a strong S. by E. breeze with a heavy ground...