LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Raft
FEBRUARY 8TH. - NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND: The coastguard reported a raft at about 1..40 P.M., floating one and a half miles north of the Farne Islands. A moderate S.S.W. wind was blowing, with a heavy swell. As the raftmight have...
The Problem of the Life-Belt
OF the many problems which confront the technical officers of the Institution few have caused so much careful thought and discussion as the design of an efficient life-belt.
Until the year 1904 the question was
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Donaghadee, Co. Down - On 18th March, 1969, it was reported that four days previously two birdwatchers had been landed on Old Lighthouse island and, due to unfavourable weather conditions, it had not been possible to take them...
Skylark (1)
DEC. 6TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX - At 11.50 A.M. it was reported that a fishing boat was flying distress signals about three miles SW. of Shoreham. A moderate N. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. At 12.41 P.M. the motor life-boat Rosa...
The Life-Boat
The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat...
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Glebe
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 4.50 ill the afternoon of the 7th of April, 1948, a fisherman of Lulworth Cove came ashore and reported that a yacht and its dinghy appeared to be in difficulties off Whitenose. Ten minutes later the motor life-boat...
Fishing Cobles
As the return of the local cobles from the fishing- grounds on the 22nd January was at- tended with considerable risk, due to the strong E.S.E. gale which had sud- denly arisen, the Life-boat was launched at 7.30 A.M. to assist them. The...
The Herring Boat Fisher Lads
Dungeness, Kent. At 8.10 a.m. on 3rd November, 1965, a local fisherman told the honorary secretary that a fishing boat, half a mile south of Dungeness, was flying a distress signal. The lifeboat Mabel E. Holland was launched at 8.28 a.m. in...
A Fishing Boat
Llandudno, Caernarvonshire - At 4.30 p.m. on 20th March, 1968, the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was firing flares off Great Orme's head. The life-boat Lilly Wainwright was launched at 4.45 in a south westerly gale with a...
Golden Crown
COBLE ESCORTED IN ROUGH SEA Runswick, Yorkshire. At 11.54 on the morning of the 26th June, 1962, the coxswain learnt that the fishing coble Golden Crown was long overdue. There was a strong northerly wind and a rough sea, and it was high...