LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Saving Life at Sea
To chronicle at the close of each succeed- ing year the notable events which have marked its course, is a very natural and in many ways a useful and profitable duty for statisticians to carry out; and the past year has been anything but un-...
Category: Articles
M.F.V. Concord and M.F.V. Broadside
Atlantic 21 escort IN HIS CAPACITY as harbour master, Helmsman Roger Trigg of Southwold lifeboat station heard at 1625 on Friday January 16 that MFV Concord, a 35ft 6in ex-Liverpool class lifeboat, had broken down three-quarters of a mile...
Book Reviews
• Sir William Hillary, founder of the RNLI, was a man of considerable vision who always pursued his ideas relentlessly, though some of his schemes were not realised until after his death. He_ proposed the formation of an international...
Category: Articles
Life-Boats Given By Corporate Bodies
OF the 157 life-boats in the Institu- tion's active fleet to-day, and the 23 in the reserve fleet, only six have been built out of the general funds of the Institution. The great majority have been provided by private legacies, but there...
Category: Donations
Four Keel Boats
Whitby, Yorkshire - At 9.10 a.m. on i8th March, 1966, with the weather deteriorating and the local fishing fleet at sea, the life-boat Mary Ann Hepwonh was launched at 9.30 in a north westerly gale, rough sea and flooding tide. She escorted...
Claudia of Belfast
On the night of the 23rd March, signals of distress were heard in the direction of the Cardiff Sands, the wind-blowing a strong gale from S.W.
at the time. The Baroness Windsor life- boat was at once launched, and it was...
Lightfoot, of Newcastle
On the night of the 4th June the steamer Lightfoot, of Newcastle, bound in bal- last from Marburg, Germany, to the Tyne, ran aground about one hundred yards north of the coastguard station at Seaton Sluice in very thick weather.
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Vitesse
New Brighton, Cheshire. — At 1.55 early on the morning of the 18th of October, 1953, the Formby coastguard reported that the motor vessel Vitesse, of Delfzijl, Netherlands, had gone aground on the revetment near C.25 Black Buoy in the River...
Honour
The Life-boat Co-operator No. 2 was called out during the afternoon of the 8th May, a small vessel having been observed in difficulties off the " Hangman," near Combmartin. The sea was heavy with a moderate gale blowing and weather...
Old Hunter
At 2.15 A.M. on the 20th February, during a strong N.N.W. gale and very heavy surf, the Life-boat Maude Pickup was launched to a vessel in distress off Uossall Point. She proceeded—a tug towing her part of the way—in the face of the gale...