LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
47-001 City of London (Above)
Two views illustrating the change in sheer between the two prototypes and the later production boats.
47-001 City of London (above) has the small 'kick1 in the sheer to accomodate the steeper deck camber and false side... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Pilot Wherry
WEXFORD.—While a strong gale was blowing from the S.S.E., on the llth January, a pilot wherry which was in tow of a steamer was observed to let go the tow-rope and come to an anchor, being unable to tow any further in such a heavy sea as was...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Life-Boat Regulations
THE following Regulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a Life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and to whose care and control the Life-boat, her Crew, and...
Category: Articles
Danearn
MARCH 15TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 9.30 A.M. the coastguard reported a vessel ashore on outer Scotstoun Head, and the motor life-boat John Russell, on temporary duty at the station, was launched at 9.55 A.M. A...
Fishing Cobles (5)
About midday on the 12th May the weather began to look boisterous with a growing sea, and shortly before three of the Spittal cobles had sailed for Goswick Bay. The Honorary Secretary having been apprised of this, he directed the Coxswain of...
Elsa Tholstrup
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Nor- folk. At 7.8 on the evening of the 13th of November, 1959, the honorary secretary learnt from the pilots of a wireless message received from the tanker Elsa Tholstrup, of Middelfart, Denmark, that she had a...
An Aeroplane (1)
The Humber, Yorkshire.—20th April, 1939. An aeroplane was thought to have crashed into the sea, but it was found that she came down on land.— Permanent paid crew: Rewards, 6s..
Mayfly
First service for new station's Arun The lifeboat scheduled to go on service at Fenit, an RNLI station being re-established on the west coast of Ireland (see 'Chalk and Cheese', this issue) was involved in her first service on 25...
Nigretta, of New York
The brigan- tine Nigretta, of New York, drove on the Saunton Sands, in Barnstaple Bay, early on the morning of the 15th November, in a strong W.S.W. wind. The coxswain and crew of the Braunton Life-boat George and Catherine, being on the...
Two Dinghies (1)
Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...