LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Whitby Life-Boat In the Floods
IN the next issue of The Lifeboat will appear a full account, with photographs, of a very unusual service. This was the rescue, on 4th September, by the Whitby No. 2 Pulling and Sailing Life-boat, of five people who had been trapped in...
Category: Services
Macedonia and the Robert Stevenson
On the 4th August this Life-boat was again launched to the assistance of the brigs Macedonia, of Blyth, bound from Havana to Peterhead, and the Robert Stevenson, of Shields, from Archangel to London, which vessels, having been caught in a...
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
Caught in a loch
10 November 2012: When a fundraising swimmer’s support boat broke down on Loch Ness and began to drift onto the rocky shores, the skipper wasted no time in calling for help. The volunteer crew from Loch Ness were...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Crews
"MAN the Life-boat!" has become a household -word, and it may possibly prove of some interest to those who, have not had the opportunity of seeing different parts of the coast of England, or of studying the different types of the...
Category: Articles
James Leath
James Leath is a pulling and sailing Norfolk and Suffolk type lifeboat. Strongly built with a heavy iron keel these were extremely stable. The high decks enclosed numerous watertight compart- Q ments to make them very buoyant although not... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Boats (2)
MONTROSE and JOHNSHAVEN.—On the 29th February a heavy sea was breaking on the bar at Montrose and a strong wind from the E.N.B. suddenly sprung up.
As three of the fishing boats were at sea the Life-boat Augusta was...
LIFEBOAT LOTTERY
SPRING 2018 RESULTS
Congratulations to Mr WD Wilson from Dorset who won our first prize of £5,000 cash.
OUR OTHER WINNERS WERE:
2ND PRIZE: £2,000
Mrs B Flippence, Essex
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1931
Persons Time of rescued from 1931. Launching. shipwreck.
Jan. 6. 7.15 a.m. S.S. Nurtureton, of Newcastle. Dungeness No. 1 Pulling and Sail- ing Life-boat stood by vessel.
„ 12. 5.0 p.m. Motor fishing...
Category: Services
Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part IV: Deck and Superstructure
FROM PREVIOUS PARTS of this article it will be remembered that, as the fast slipway boat (FSB) is made of steel, her hull is built upside-down until plating is complete. Here (Figs I and 2) the second of the two prototype FSBs building at...
Category: Articles