LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Services by Shore-boats.

. . . and farewell to the 35ft 6in Liverpool class lifeboat, a class which has served the RNLI, both as a pulling and sailing lifeboat and then as a motor lifeboat, since the mid 1800s. Grace Darling (below), built in 1954, the last of her... - View image in PDF

The Life-boat was again afloat on service on the 1st October. On that day the ijHjhooner Courier, of Lerwick, while at anchor in Peterhead Bay, made signals for assistance on the gale increasing from, the eastward. A large pilot-boat put off...

New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 11.30 on the night of the 25th of January, 1948, the Hoylake coastguard tele- phoned that a fishing vessel was in distress near C.2 A Buoy, half a mile off the Crosby Lightvessel and at 12.15 the No. 2 motor...

During a moderate N.N.E. breeze on the 31st March the dandy Susie of Yarmouth was seen to go ashore on the Bell Buoy shoal and to begin to bump heavily in the rough sea. It was then 4.30 P.M.

and within a few minutes the...

Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. At 4.27 on the afternoon of the 14th of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a sailing dinghy had cap- sized in the Solent between Lymington Spit buoy and Fort Albert. The life- boat...

Whitehills, and Buckie, Banffshire.— While bound from Narvik to Working- ton, with a cargo of iron ore, and a crew of 28, the Swedish steamer Frej, of Stockholm, met heavy weather and sheltered in Banff Bay. At 3.20 on the morning...

From Photograph by Messrs. Russell tc Sons, London H.R.H. The PRINCE of WALES has always taken a keen interest in the Institution and in its work. He succeeded his Royal Father the Prince Consort as Vice- Patron in February, 1863, and has...