LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Tins year South Shields, where the first life-boat was built in 1789, cele- brated its centenary as a county borough. As part of the celebrations the Mayor and Mayoress, and members of the Council, went out in the Tyne- mouth life-boat...

JANUARY 11TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY, and PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. During the afternoon information was given by the coastguard to both stations that vessels had been torpedoed or mined six miles west of Rhoscolyn. The Holyhead motor...

The late Coxswain Henry 'Downtide' West.. - View image in PDF

Saved from drowning A 71-YEAR-OLD MAN was out fishing alone in his 9ft wooden dinghy on the afternoon of Monday September 9, 1985.

The weather was fair, there was a moderate south-south-westerly breeze, force 4, with a...

Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 2.54 on the afternoon of the 14th of September.

1957, the coastguard reported that a fishing boat was flying a distress signal about a mile and a half south-east of Southwold harbour. The life-boat...

SALTBURN-BY-THE-SEA, YORKSHIRE. — On the 29th November, this coast was visited by the most severe gale experienced for many years past. The wind had been gradually increasing from the previous day; until at S A.M. it was blowing a perfect...

THE WORK of our Northern Irish lifeboat crews continues in the same admirable way as that of their fellow seamen at all other RNLI stations. As to financial branches, last year RNLI committees and their helpers raised £30,000, a record...

STAINLESS STEEL J ROPE FOR RIGGING ffj[ NOMINAL "• [ DIAMETER STANDING RIGGING RUNNING RIGGING f) Milli- Inches / metres (approx) MINIMUM BREAKING LOAD (LBS) 5/64' 705 1100 1590 2820 4410 6350 8646 10200 10500 .534 1200 2130 3330...