LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Fig 1 (above): Crew Member John Ashford demonstrates his modified floating basket .stretcher. - View image in PDF

photograph by courtesy of Nigel Coulton. - View image in PDF

Brooke Marine Limited SHIPBUILDERS-ENGINEERS AND CONSULTING NAVAL ARCHITECTS ESTABLISHED 1874 THAMES Type 50 ft Self-Righting Length overall 50' 0" Beam 14' 6* Displacement 23.5 tons Fuel Capacity 400 imp, gallons Twin General...

Called out twice FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1987, found Scotland's Banffshire coast in the grip of force 6-7 east-south-easterly winds and rough seas, with overcast skies and rain squalls adding to the wintry scene.

At 1939 the...

Torbay, Devon.—At 9.22 on the night of the 17th of October, 1953, the Brixham coastguard rang up to say that two men and a five-year-old boy had left Paignton for a fishing trip at 4.30 in the motor launch Dixie, but had not returned. As no...

Sunderland, Co. Durham.—The motor life-boat Edward and Isabella Irttiin was launched at 11.20 P.M. on the 26th October, and returned after a fruitless search for a fishing boat with two men on board, at 4 A.M. on the 27th. She was being...

JANUARY 16TH. - MARGATE, RAMSGATE.

AND WALMER. KENT. At 9.30 P.M. a message was received at Margate from the Margate coastguard that an Italian steamer was sinking close to the North Goodwin Light-vessel. A strong N.E. wind...

LAST year, for the first time, the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat was unable to take part in the Armistice Day Service on llth November. She was called out on service at 1.30 in the morning, and did not return for twelve hours.* In...

Rough tow A RED ROCKET sighted by Shoreham Coastguard, Sussex, eight miles due south of Littlehampton at 2.58 a.m. on the morning of August 5, 1973, led to the launching a quarter of an hour later of the lifeboat Dorothy and Philip Constant,...