LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Britannia, of Belfast
On the even- ing of 24th February, the smack Bri- tannia, of Belfast, being observed riding heavily to her anchors, in an exposed position, during a strong gale from N.E., with the night coming on, the Life-boat John Turner-Turner was...
Mr. John Foster of Whitby
THERE are few in the history of the Institution who have a longer record of service than Mr. John W. Foster, of Whitby, who retired at the end of last September. He had then been secretary of the Whitby life-boat station for 44 years. He was...
Category: Articles
A Fine Service at Holyhead
ON the evening of the 7th October, 1938, a small coaster was reported by the coastguard watchman at Rhosneigir to be making distress signals between Rhosneigir and Porthdinllaen. The Porthdinllaen and Holyhead life-boat stations were...
Category: Services
Barra Island Lifeboat the 52Ft Burnett R a Colby Cubbin No 3 Her Emergency Air Bag Inlfated After She Had Been Capsized and Had Righted
Barra Island lifeboat, the 52ft Burnett R. A. - View image in PDF
Colby Cubbin No. 3, her emergency air bag inlfated, after she had been capsized and had righted. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of HMS Gannet. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bereby
SEPTEMBER 24TH. - NEWCASTLE, CO.
DOWN. At 3 A.M. the coastguard telephoned that a ship was ashore at Ringfad Point, Killough, and the motor life-boat L. P. and St. Helen was launched at 3.20 A.M. A S.E.wind was blowing,...
Notes of the Quarter
THE total number of launches by life- boats on service in 1960 was 714, the lives of 367 people being saved thereby.
The number of launches was appre- ciably less than in 1959, which had been a truly remarkable year, with a...
Category: Articles
The Motor House-Boat Haste Away
Margate, Kent. — At 1.58 on the afternoon of the llth of July, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel appeared to be drifting towards the Longsands about ten miles north of Margate. Two minutes later the life-boat North Foreland,...
Helen N. MacAlister
St. Mary's, Stilly Islands. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 26th of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small motor tug was burning flares between Annet Head and St. Mary's. The life-boat Guy and...
Two Boats
Padstow, and St. Ires, Cornwall.—At 7.45 in the evening of the 25th of Sept- ember, 1949, the Trevose Head coast- guard telephoned the Padstow life-boat authorities that a rowing boat with a crew of four was trying to get ashore in...
H.M. Tug Mediator
Humber, Yorkshire. — At 12.10 in the morning of the 27th of May, 1952, the Spurn Point coastguard tele- phoned that the tug Scotsman, of Hull, which had been helping H.M.
tug Mediator to tow a naval vessel, was making...