LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mr. A. C. Macintosh, of Anstruther
Mr. A. C. Macintosh, joint honorary secretary of the Anstruther life-boat station, died on 3rd November. He had been associated with its work for forty-seven years, and his father and he had been its honorary secretaries since it was...
Category: Obituaries
Plymouth: 44' Waveney Lifeboat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse Ii Lying Alongside the Yacht Roy Fra Masnedo of Falmouth After Towing the 94-Ton Ex-Baltic Trader Safe
Plymouth: 44' Waveney lifeboat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse II lying alongside the yacht Roy Fra Masnedo of Falmouth, after towing the 94-ton ex-Baltic trader safely into Millbay Docks from one mile south of Burgh Island on the night... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain William Robinson, of Newbiggin
Coxswain William Robinson, of Newbiggin, Northumberland, suddenly collapsed and died on 31st December last, just after he had handed over the Lifeboat to his successor. He had been Coxswain for fourteen years, and previous to that had served...
Category: Obituaries
Clare S, Northern Star, Fair Ladies and Press On
Caught out ON THE MORNING of Thursday January 31 a fleet of fishing boats sailed from Hartlepool in comparatively good weather which, however, deteriorated fast. Within an hour, a near gale, force 7, had blown up from the east north east...
The Danish Motor Vessel Loa Ronn
MAY 13TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
About noon a vessel was seen five miles out showing a “Not under control” signal. She anchored, and was kept under observation, but later she went on her way. At 6.30 she was seen to be...
Firecrest the 15' steamdriven Paddleboat Built By David Garrick She Is Powered By a Single Coalfired Boiler Developing One Quarter Horsepower
Firecrest, the 15'steamdriven paddleboat built by David Garrick. She is powered by a single coalfired boiler developing one quarter horsepower.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
S.S. Katherine, of Plymouth
JANUARY 23RD. - PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM.
At 5.20 in the evening the coastguard reported a vessel sending out signals on her siren. There was dense fog, with a light south-west wind and a slight sea. The motor life-boat T.B.B.H...
Lionel Lukin - Lifeboat Inventor By Frank Martin
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the patenting of Lionel Lukin's 'unimmergible boat', the first craft ever to be designed specifically for saving human life at sea. Frank Martin, honorary treasurer of the Hythe branch of...
Category: Articles
The Sea School Training Vessel Radium
Buckie, Banffshire. At 9.32 on the night of the 1st of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen five miles north-west of Buckie. There was a light east-south-easterly wind with a...
High Seas Beating Up Against Scarborough Boathouse Doors In the January Storms Photograph By Courtesy of Dennis Dobson
High seas healing up against Scarborough hoatliouse doors in the January storms. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Dennis Dobson.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs