LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Minuet
Skipper taken ill THE YACHT Minuet, crossing the Channel from France with a crew of four on board on Thursday August 23, 1979, was making heavy weather and sent out a distress call; she was about eight miles east by north of Dover. HM...
A Silver Medal Service at Cloughey
ON 9th May, 1939, the s.s. Arantzazu- Mendi, of Bilbao, went aground on Butter Paddy shoals, outside Kearney Point, Co. Down. Efforts were made to salve her, and there was a salvage party on board on 17th June. A strong S.S.W. wind was...
Category: Services
The S.S. Lesrix and S.S. Empire Pilgrim
JANUARY 26TH. - NEWBURGH, AND ABERDEEN, ABERDEENSHIRE. On the 25th January a very heavy storm of wind and snow broke on the coast. All roads and railways became blocked with snow, making traffic impossible, and telephone wires were broken....
While St.Mary's New Arun Was at Poole Before Sailing
While St Mary's new Arun was at Poole before sailing for the Scilly Islands she was visited by her donor, Mrs Esme Edgar, who in a small private ceremony named the lifeboat Robert Edgar. Coxswain Matthew Lethbridge and some of his crew... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
IN PRAISE of SHOREHAM LIFE-BOATMEN
On 3rd November, 1968, the Dutch warship Rotterdam towed the yacht Storm, which was carrying a man, his wife and child, to within a few miles of Shoreham and then requested the assistance of the local life-boat. Considerable difficulties...
Category: Articles
Gallant Scottish Fishermen. The Rescue of Three Bathers at Port William
ON the afternoon of 15th September, 1935, two men and a girl went bathing in the bay at Port William, Wigtown- shire, in a very heavy surf. They kept in the broken water close inshore, but they were swept off their feet by a much larger wave...
Category: Services
Tractor Trials at Aberystwyth
TRIALS of the prototype of a new tractor for launching life-boats—a powerful Fowler tractor with a 95 h.p. diesel engine—were held at Aberystwyth in November. Members of the com- mittee of management and officials of the Institution were...
Category: Articles
Dinghies
Mass Capsize AT 3.11 p.m. on May 28 it was learnt that dinghies from the Shoreham, Sussex, yacht club were capsizing and theyacht club rescue craft did not seem able to cope with them, in particular one dinghy 100 yards off the harbour. The...
Lord Kitchener Named at Walmer
Brisk winds did not spoil the sunshine in Walmer on 11 May when 200 guests attended the naming of the station's new D class lifeboat.
Len Stephens, honorary treasurer of the Welling branch handed the lifeboat over to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Ketch-Rigged Yacht Thelma II, of Beaumaris
Portrush, Co. Antrim. — On the morning of the 1st September the auxiliary ketch-rigged yacht Thelma II, of Beaumaris, carrying a crew of three, left Portrush for Liverpool under sail.
Her engine was out of action. A very...