LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Six Small Sailing Boats
AUGUST 28TH. - COURTMACSHERRY HARBOUR, CO. CORK. At nine in the morning a messenger came by car to the lifeboat station and reported that six small sailing boats had been washed away from Kilbrittain during a storm, and it was thought that a...
Naming Ceremony at Sunderland
THE naming ceremony of the new motor life-boat at Sunderland took place on 13th June. The boat is of the 46 feet Watson cabin type, described on page 192. She has cost £8,000 and has been built out of a legacy from the late Mrs. I....
Category: Inaugurations
Mr. J. R. Barnett's Project
A 46-feet motor life-boat with steering cockpit amidships instead of aft. (See opposite page.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ugunjeema
Two days later—Sunday—a violent northerly gale, with blinding showers of snow and sleet prevailed, and at about 3 P.M. a barque was observed off Skate- raw, displaying signals of distress. The Life-boat William Arthur Milhvard was at...
Hermes of Lune
Dragging in storm A YACHT DRAGGING her anchor in North Mouth, Out Skerries, 20 miles north east of Lerwick lifeboat station, in Shetland, was reported to the deputy launching authority by Lerwick Coastguard at 0051 on Tuesday September21,...
The S.S. Orkla
During a very thick fog on the 5th January a message was received from the Cross Light-vessel by wireless telegraphy stating a steamer was ashore on the sand. The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden were assembled and the boat launched...
George Bernard O'Reilly,
George Bernard O'Reilly, Skegness deputy launching authority from 1987 to 1994 and between 1995 and 1997. Bernard was also vice chairman and box secretary of Skegness branch and served as a crew member on Skegness lifeboat for over 16...
Category: Obituaries
Citrine
Early on the morning of the 2nd of January, 1956, the motor vessel Citrine, of Glasgow, sank off the Cornish coast. The Lizard life-boat rescued three of her crew from the sea, and the Coverack life-boat rescued four others from the sea, one...
Duchess of Leith
CURIOUS INCIDENT OFF SHERINGHAM Sheringham and Cromer, Norfolk. At about five o'clock on the afternoon of Thursday the 19th September, 1963, the Sheringham coxswain launched his crab boat to investigate a cabin cruiser, Duchess of Leith,...
A Steam Drifter
AUG. 29TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. Guns had been heard in a fog, but the life-boat could find nothing. It was learnt later that a steam drifter had been sunk in a collision, but thecrew had been rescued by another vessel.-...