LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Great Services Which Were Rendered By the Life-Boats to the Allied Cause During the War Have Been Referred to In Previous Numbers of The Life-Boat
'T'HE great services which were rendered by the Life-boats to the Allied cause during the War have been referred to in precious numbers of THE LIFE-BOAT. The full list of the services in the last year of the War, during which rewards...
Category: Services
Whitby Sunday October 19 1980: at 1030 a Converted Ship's Lifeboat Was Seen Heading Towards the Harbour Entrance Conditions Were Very Dangerous With a Very Heavy Swell and Breaking Sea
Whit by, Sunday October 19, 1980: At 1030 a converted ship's lifeboat was seen heading towards the harbour entrance.
Conditions were very dangerous, with a very heavy swell and breaking seas at the bar and in the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Peep Into the Past
These days it is hard to imagine lifeboats propelled by anything but powerful engines. Back in the autumn of 1905 though, the then Life-boat Journal was hailing the introduction of marine • - ** *i***** " .xT- ~~ -'*'- 100...
Category: Articles
M.F.V. Gratitude
MFV sinks MFV GRATITUDE, on passage from Lerwick to Macduff, sent a MAYDAY distress call at 0133 on Sunday April 24 to say that she had struck rock at Sumburgh Head; she was still afloat but needed immediate help. Shetland Coastguard...
Fishing Cobles
Six of the fishing cobles belong- ing to Berwick and Spittal went to sea on the morning of the 24th January, and when at their lines, were overtaken by a sudden gale from N.E. The Cox- swain launched the Life-boat Matthew Simpson, at the...
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's lifebelt are— 1. Sufficient extra bouyanoy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
Faith Star, Galilee, Provider A, Success, Lead Us and Pilot Me
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 18th of January, 1956, the weather deteriorated while six local fishing boats were still at sea, and it was decided that the no. 1 life-boat should launch to escort them into the harbour. At 10.54 the...
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Knife to see you? •opte in rroubte are usually pleased to see a lifeboat, but not so for a man ^B to evade the police in Heme Bay in August. Holding a knife, he cycled, onto the sea and swam out. The man, who was not training for a...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
MONTROSE, FORFARSHIRE.—On the evening of the 1st January one of the fishermen reported that a vessel was showing a light, evidently in close proximity to the Annat Bank. The Life-boatmen were at once assembled and the No. 1 Life-beat Sarah...
Category: Services
Notes on the Quarter
TWENTY-ONE nations were represented at the llth international life-boat conference, which was held in New York City from 16th to 20th May, newcomers to the conference being the Bahamas, the Philippines, and South...
Category: Articles