LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Trawler (1)
Horrific conditions for two lifeboats Clogher Head and Newcastle 's Mersey class lifeboats were launched in winds of Storm Force 10 to Hurricane Force 12 on 3 February 1994 when an 80ft trawler reported that she was taking water and...
New Ways of Raising Money
King Edward's School, Birmingham, has a voluntary ink fund in charge of the geography master. Early this year the school sent the Institution a postal order for us. 6d. - the ink fund takings over a period of several...
Category: Donations
Cynthia
MAY 22 ND. - RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE.
At about midnight on the 21st May a ship was seen amongst the rocks just south of Runswick, and at 1.50 A.M. on the 22nd the motor life-boat Robert Patton - The Always Ready was launched....
Coxswain Robin Castle
Coxswain Robin Castle Station: Sheerness Boat: 44ft Waveney Helen Turnbull Conditions: Wind SSW Force 15, sea 20-25ft high, visibility poor in rain and spray.
Service: Rescued two survivors from 16ft angling boat anchored... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Ways of Raising Money
A LORRY decorated by the chairman and secretary of the Luton branch, Lieut-Commander Bernard McDonald, R.N.V.R., and Commander W. R. S.
Smith, R.N.V.R., with equipment supplied by the Institution's depot won the first...
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Cover Picture
In this issue there are reports of four inshore lifeboat services to people cut off by the tide or trapped in cliffs or caves; it is a type of service for which ILBs are admirably suited but which may have to be carried out in hazardous... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The American Steamer Bessemer City, of New York
St. Ives, Cornwall.—At midnight on the lst-2nd November the coastguard reported a vessel ashore west of St.
Ives. She was the American steamer Bessemer City, of New York, bound from Liverpool for London with a general cargo...
Broughton
At noon on the 14th November the barque Broughton, of Liverpool, bound from Shields to Val- paraiso, was observed drifting towards the land east of Brighton, during a heavy gale from the W.S.W. The Broughton had lost her mizen-mast, and had...
The New Chief Inspector of Life-Boats
COMMANDER VAUX has been succeeded as chief inspector of life-boats by Commander T. G. Michelmore, R.D., R.N.R., the deputy chief inspector.
Commander Michelmore joined the Life-boat Service as a district inspector of...
Category: Articles
Dosinia
DEC. 21ST. - CROMER, NORFOLK. Information was received shortly before 2 A.M.
from the coastguard that a vessel had struck a mine near the Haisborough Light-vessel.
A light southerly wind was blowing, with...