LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles (1)
DECEMBER 19TH. - NEWBIGGIN - BY - THE - SEA, NORTHUMBERLAND. Eight cobles were out fishing, and a fresh northerly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. At 11.45 in the morning the life-boat station received a message from the coastguard...
After 54 Years
The Institution has received a gift from two ladies in Toronto, Canada, who wrote that they remembered seeing the Walton-on-the-Naze liferboat going out on service in the spring of 1889..
Category: Articles
Providentia, of Svelvig
Again, on the 24th March, the same life-boat went off to the rescue of the crew of the brig Prtmdentia, of Svelvig, near Drammen. In running for the harbour, during a gale of wind from the S.E., the vessel had struck on the rocks near the...
Five New Life-Boats Named
FIVE life-boats at stations as far apart as Sunderland and Shoreham Harbour were named during the last quarter. On the 4th of July at Sunderland a life-boat provided out of a legacy left by Miss Emily Myers was named. Mr. R. Cyril Thompson,...
Category: Inaugurations
Lobora
FLEETWOOD.—On the 7th November one of the severest storms known for years was experienced on this part of the Coast of Lancashire. "While it was at its height signals of distress were observed throe miles out at sea on "Bernard'...
Hope
The Branch has received a donation of £10 10s. Od.
from Dr. J. Gerard-Pearse, owner of the yacht Hope, and the three men who were on board with him when the yacht was rescued by the Weymouth Motor Life-boat on the 8th...
Sarah and Silver
On the 26th February the No. 1 Lifeboat Augusta was again launched at 12.30 P.M., the fishing fleet having again been overtaken by a storm, the wind blowing strongly from the E. and the sea being very heavy. . Most of the boats had returned...
Lucky Hit
Lowestoft, Suffolk.-—At about 9.15 A.M.
on the 18th February, 1938, the coastguard reported a smack aground on the Inner Newcombe Sands, and the motor life-boat Agnes Cross was away within five minutes. A moderate N.E. by E...
Launching By Haul-Off Warp
The Haul-off Warp is used at nineteen stations, where the life-boats are launched off the open beach. It is a very effective method of getting the life-boat through the inshore breakers which might otherwise knock her back on the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Snurp VII
Stromness, Orkneys.—At 1.15 early on the morning of the 4th of May, 1957,the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned to say a message had been received that a vessel was ashore in Hoy Sound.
The life-boat Archibald & Alexander M...