LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Matchless
WHITBY.—On the 1st October, at 4 P.M., the Life-boat Harriott Forteath was launched and put four of the crew of a Cornish fishing-boat, the Matchless, on board their vessel, which was riding at anchor near Whitby Kock, and was in great...
New Life-Boat Transporting Carriage
WORK has been in progress for some years to produce a new carriage for transporting life-boats down to the sea at stations where there is no suitable harbour and no means of launching a life-boat down a slipway. For some time the need has...
Category: Articles
Rnlb Foresters Future
RNLB Foresters Future, the 33ft Brede lifeboat stationed at Alderney for 12 months station evaluation trials, was named on July 19 at the RNLI Poole depot quay during Poole Open Days by Mrs Renee Roddie. After a demonstration trip, Mrs... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Life-Boats
A NEW Life-boat Station has been formed at St. Abbs (Berwickshire), the Life-boat being of the Watson type, 38 ft. by 10 ft., with motor installation.
The Life-boats at the following Stations have recently been replaced by...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat
Hark! amid the darkness falling, And the thund'ring winds appalling, Comes an urgent signal calling Help from o'er the seas! House, ye heroes, brave and daring, Ye of life and limb unsparing, Oft with death before you staring, Face...
Category: Poetry
Lady Havelock
KESSINGLAND.—On the 30th November, at 11 o'clock in the morning, a brig named the Lady Havelock, bound from Sunderland to Jersey, with a cargo of coal, was observed to be making for the inner passage, inside the Barnard Sand, but. the...
Agatha
The steam trawler Agatha, of Grimsby, ran ashore on the beach outside Spurn Point at 9.15 P.M. on the 6th January. A moderate easterly gale was blowing with a heavy sea. The Life-boat at once proceeded to the vessel which was found full of...
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Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 12.12 early on the morning of the 30th of June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that two bathers were marooned on a sand- bank at Point Clear. The life-boat H.C.J., on temporary duty at the station, was launched at...
Cruz V, of Orporto
On the night of the I 21st September, the barque Cruz V., of Oporto, with a general cargo, drove ashore near Dungeness Point. The Dungeness life- boat was speedily launched, and proceeded through 4 miles, of broken water to her aid, when...