LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes and News
1924 will be remembered as one of the wettest years on record. But it was not a year of storms, although it ended with great gales all round the coast.
It was, in fact, a year much calmer than the average. It is such years...
Category: Articles
Blackbird and a Canoe
Three calls A CANOE with two children aboard, overdue on passage from Colne Point to West Mersea, was reported to the deputy launching authority of West Mersea ILB station by Thames Coastguard at 2006 on Monday July 31,...
People and Places
Around and about the RNLI A swarm of Flying Bs The names of the prize winners in the 49th national lottery were pulled from the drum at the Poole headquarters on 30 April by members of the Bentley Drivers' Club.
The...
Category: Articles
Emerald and Aristides
BROUGHTY FERRY.—On the 4th of September two vessels were reported to be ashore at the mouth of the River Tay. A severe south-easterly "gale was blowing at the time, and a heavy sea was breaking on the Tay Bar. The English Mechanic...
Ocean and Queen's Jubilee
SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. — About 4.30 P.M. on the 15th April two fishermen reported that two cobles, engager! in crab-catching between four and five miles north-east of the Castle foot,were in danger owing to the strong sea and...
Wills and Hepworth Ltd
A fascinating history of the R.N.L.I., and a vivid account of the 'way in which our Life-boatmen carry out their vital service.
Told in easy to read, easy to understand terms and illustrated in full-colour...
Category: Advertisement
Life-Boats and Aeroplanes
DURING the month of October six Lifeboats were launched in response to signals which were believed to be from aeroplanes in distress. The story of their search shows the way in which the increasing traffic by air is adding to the duties of...
Category: Services
People and Places
Three men from Ramsey lifeboat station have laid claim to being the first Manxmen to climb the rigging of an 1863-built full-rigged sailing ship since the Ramsey-built vessel last left the island some 100 years ago... And what were they...
Category: Articles
B.P.Manager and Scarcity
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 4.27 on the morning of the 12th of July, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a message had been intercepted from an unknown vessel, stating : " Collision one mile Rough Tower." As...
Isabella and Nina
On the morning of the 20th June the coast- guard reported that a small local fishing boat, the Isabella and Nina, with one man on board, was fishing south of Dundonnie Head, and as a strong gale was blowing from the north, and the sea was...