LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Finnish Steamer Otava
On the 8th June the Finnish steamer Otava, of Helsingfors, ran aground in a thick fog at Tunstall, about twenty miles south of Bridlington. She was bound for Hull with a cargo of timber, and carried a crew of sixteen. A moderate N.E....
Signals of Distress In the Night
THE need has been long felt of a shipwreck night-signal of distress, which could be seen from a far distance; be as different as possible from ordinary lights, so as not to be mistaken for one; be inexpensive, and above all be portable and...
Category: Articles
Long-Standing Supporters of the R.N.L.I.
AMONG companies which have given the R.N.L.I. valuable financial support over a number of years are a firm of naval tailors in Harwich, a Leeds brewery, and a Leith firm of shipowners, exporters and importers.
• The Harwich...
Category: Donations
White Heather II and Welcome Home (1)
ON the morning of 17th February last a number of fishing boats from Sheringham, on the coast of Norfolk, went out after whelks. Before they returned a heavy sea had got up, and the boats were in danger. A message was sent for the Motor...
The Heavy Gales of October and November Last
THE unusually heavy gale, or rather hurricane, of the night of the 24th October last, was unexampled in its work of destruction in our maritime records. During the whole of that day not a single casualty, with one trifling exception,...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
CEMLY.N, ANGLESEY, AND HARTLEPOOL.— THE B.OY.AL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has provided these Life-boat Stations with new ten-oared boats of the newest type, 34 feet long and 8 feet wide, each being provided with three water-ballast...
Category: Articles
Tribute to Life-Boat Designer
A MAN who can truly be said to have devoted his working life to the Life-boat Service, and whose name is likely always to figure prominently in the history of life-boat design and construction, has retired from the full-time service of the...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Crew at Buckingham Palace
H.M. the Queen invested each of the five members of the crew of the Moelfre life-boat who took part in the rescue from the coaster Hindlea on the 27th October, 1959, with the silver medal for gallantry in saving life at sea at Bucking- ham...
Category: Medals
White Heather II and Welcome Home
ON the morning of 17th February last a number of fishing boats from Sheringham, on the coast of Norfolk, went out after whelks. Before they returned a heavy sea had got up, and the boats were in danger. A message was sent for the Motor...
Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st October, 1954 - 78,940 Notes of the Quarter THE cold, wet summer of 1954 was a most...
Category: Articles