LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Stellatus
Wick, Caithness-shire. At 5.29 on the morning of the 3rd of March, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorarysecretary that the s.s. Stellatus of Helsingborg, Sweden, was ashore near Freswick Bay but was in no immediate danger. At 5.50 the...
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
THE EXPERIENCES of a number of lifeboats in the severe gales last winter led to the appointment in February, 1978 of a working party to examine what more could be done to reduce the dangers facing lifeboat crews in extreme conditions....
Category: Articles
The Encroachment of the Sea
IT is only to be expected that the sub- ject of the erosion of the coast, which in other words means the encroachment of the sea, should be one of considerable interest to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION. The nature of Life- boat...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Oscar
WHITBY.—On the 5th January, the Life-boat Robert Whitworth was launched at 10.40 P.M., and rescued the crew, consisting of 22 persons, from the s.s. Oscar, of Leith, which vessel had struck off the Whitby Rocks during thick weather and in a...
Difficult Cliff Operation
A FRAMED letter of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., has been addressed to Coxswain C. J.
Crockford and crew of the Tenby, Pembrokeshire, life-boat for the...
Category: Services
The Crew of Torbay's Arun Edward Bridges (Civil Service No 37)
The crew of Torbay's Arun Edward Bridges (Civil Service No. 37) can only watch as the trawler Tennetje sinks off Start Point, Devon on 17 July 1988.
The lifeboat had been called at 0605 after part of Tennetje's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats
Plymouth, Devon.—The German Schooner Erna, belonging to Bremen, drove ashore on Drake's Island in Plymouth Sound on the night of the 21st February, during a S.S.E. gale which at times attained the violence of a hurricane. The vessel...
Category: Services
Prince Llewellyn
WORTHING. — The schooner Prince Llewellyn, laden with slate from Portmadoc for Shoreham, stranded about two miles E. of Worthing pier at 2 P.M., on the 20th February, in a strong E.S.E.
breeze, a rough sea and thick weather...
The Yarmouth Life-Boats
OFF the mouth of the River Yare, which divides the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, and has given its name to the ancient seaport town of Yarmouth, stretch a series of sandbanks, such as the Scroby, the Cross Sand, and the Cockle, to name...
Category: Services
Annual Meeting
THE Hundred and Third Annual Genera) Meeting of the Governors of the Institution was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, the 27th May, at 4 o'clock p.m., Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Management,...
Category: Meetings