LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Around the Coast
SECOND OF THE STEEL HULLED 18 knot fast afloat Thames class lifeboats, Elizabeth Ann, 50-002, recently completed her first comparative trials with the prototype, 50-001, and with an Arun class boat, 52-02. Although only light to moderate...
Category: Articles
64 YEARS WITH THE QUEEN
Sir William Hillary, founder of the RNLI, believed that sea rescue was ‘a cause which extends from the palace to the cottage ... and which addresses itself with equal force to all the best feelings of every class in the state.’ So began our... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Three Naval Barges (1)
SEPTEMBER 24TH. - SENNEN COVE, AND PENLEE, CORNWALL. Three naval barges had been reported in distress, but nothing could be found. The Sennen Cove coxswain died in hospital while the life-boat was out on service, and her mechanic...
Pump action
A trawler with a lone fisherman onboard got her nets caught in her propeller on 2 June off Cliffe Marshes. She then sustained damage and began to take on water as her skipper tried to clear the obstruction. Gravesend’s E class lifeboat Olive...
Category: Articles
The Earl of Shaftesbury, K.G., and the Lifeboat Cause
At the Annual Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, on the 17th March last, the EARL off SHAFTESBURY was present, and delivered the following interesting speech. He said:— " The Committee of this society has conferred ! upon me...
Category: Articles
The Admiralty Oil Tanker Brichol
Nov. 30TH. - BARRA ISLAND HEBRIDES. At 11.10 A.M. a telegram was received from the Stornoway coastguard that a vessel was ashore on Calavay Island, near Eriskay. A southerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. At 11.35...
Medal for the Year's Best Paper
THE Constantine medal of the Man- chester Association of Engineers has been awarded to Mr. R. A. Oakley, Sur- veyor of Life-boats, for the best paper to be presented to the Association dur- ing the session 1959-60. Mr. Oakley read a paper...
Category: Awards
Trefoil, of Donaghadee
SEPTEMBER 3RD. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. At five o’clock in the afternoon it was learned that a yacht was in distress off the Copeland Islands in Belfast Lough. A south-south-east gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The...
Lifeboat Services
Eastern Division Explosion at sea AN EXPLOSION, on the night of November 15, 1973, aboard the 300-ton deep-sea trawler Boston Jaguar, 37 miles 020° (T) from Cromer, Norfolk, left the ship without steering gear, with her mate killed and...
Category: Services
NORTH OF ENGLAND AND ISLE OF MAN: Community news
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YOUTH DIVE IN TO DROWNING PREVENTION
In 2017, Kumon Y’all, an organisation mobilising young Muslim people to give back to the community, approached the RNLI to seek safety advice for an upcoming...
Category: Articles