LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Maria (1)
JULY 9TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, AND CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. While bound from Rochester to Maldon with a load of brick rubble the barge Maria, of Rochester, lost her sprit and was in difficulties about one and a half miles S.W. of the Swin...
Fishing Cobles and A Parachute
FEBRUARY 7TH. - FILEY, AND SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. The Filey motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched at 1.10 in the afternoon to stand by the local fishing cobles as a strong south-west wind was blowing and the sea was rough. When the...
H.R.H. The Duke of Kent, K.G. Review of the Year's Work at the Annual Meeting
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 137 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 29 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to May 31st, 1938 65,677 H.R.H. The Duke of Kent, K.G.
Review of the...
Category: Meetings
Empire Alfred and Yardcraft 345
DECEMBER 17TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.
Shortly after midnight on the 16th of December the Paignton police telephoned that a ship was ashore at Hollacombe Point, near the Torquay and Paignton Gas Works. A later message said that...
The Rescue of Three Fishermen. A Gallant Service off Folkestone
A Gallant Service off Folkestone.
ON the night of Sunday, 13th December last, a strong S.W. gale was blowing off Folkestone, with a very heavy sea and driving rain. The day had been fine, and early in the afternoon the...
Category: Services
Books
Reviews of what’s new on the shelves this season
The storm prophet
by Hector Macdonald
Review by Carol Waterkeyn
This extraordinary novel is set...
Category: Articles
Our Confidence and other Fishing Boats
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—About 12.45 in the afternoon of the 17th of Nov- ember, 1949, information was received that three local fishing vessels were at sea and that the weather was worsen- ing. The life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield,...
William Harvey
Tractor service THE HONORARY SECRETARY of St Ives lifeboat station was informed at 1025 on Monday November 19, 1979, that the fishing boat William Harvey had a man on board with a badly injured finger. At first it was thought that the...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To DAVID WILLIAMS, on his retirement, after serving for 42 years as coxswain of the Aberystwyth life-boat, a coxswain's certifi- cate of service and a pension, commuted to a gratuity at his request.
To CHARLES Mom, on...
Category: Awards
The Life-Boat
The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat is...
Category: Articles