LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Work of a Life-Boat Inspector
from the service of the Institution in 1920.) THE perfect Inspector of Life-boats should be a man of many parts. First and foremost, he must, of course, be a seaman; but he must add some knowledge of the art of the boatbuilder in order...
Category: Articles
Michalis Poutous
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, and Barry Dock, Glamorganshire.—On the night of the 23rd December the Greek steamer Michalis Poutous, of Piraeus, bound light from Rouen to Barry Dock, ran on to the rocks in Bridgwater bay, near Burnham. She...
Gina
Barrow, Lancashire. At seven o'clock on the morning of the 1 Oth of September.
1959, the police informed the coxswain that the fishing boat Gina of Barrow with a crew of five, which had been at sea fishing the previous...
Casquet
YACHT TOWED AFTER ANCHOR CHAIN CLEARED Beaumaris, Anglesey. At 7.45 on the evening of the 18th June, 1962, the coastguard at Penmon informed the honorary secretary that an unidentified yacht was anchored about one mile south-by-east of the...
Hyperion
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—The motor life-boat Stanhope Smart was launched at 4 P.M. on the 2nd August to the help of the fishing boat Hyperion, with a crew of five, which was in difficulties owing to engine trouble. A moderate S.E. wind was...
Invermore, of Dublin (1)
Cloughey, Donaghadee, and Newcastle, Co. Down, and Port St. Mary, Port Erin, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.—On the 19th November, 1937, the disabled schooner Invermore, of Dublin, was picked up by the Cloughey and Donaghadee life-boats....
Doris
St. Ives, Cornwall. At 8.30 on the evening of the 14th of July, 1958, the honorary secretary was informed that a small fishing boat had engine trouble two miles from St. Ives Head. At 9.3 the life-boat Edgar. George, Orlando and Eva Child...
Anne Gill
On the following morning the Life-boat went to the assistance of the stranded schooner, Anne Gill, of and for Goole, from London, laden with wheat. Her crew had launched their own boat, and two men had got into her, but she broke adrift and...
A Smashing Time! Watched By Crew Members of the Aberdeen Lifeboat
A smashing time! Watched by crew members of the Aberdeen lifeboat, Alister Yorston, district manager of United Rum Merchants and Norman Trewren, coxswain, broke open pub collection bottles for the RNLI. Aberdeen-based Watsons Rum has built... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Marie, of Griefswald
The Baroness Windsor life-boat at Penarth rescued the crew of 11 men of the brig Marie, of Grieffswald, which had stranded on Ranie Spit.