LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Walmer, Kent. At 4.40 on the after- noon of the 6th August, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that some of the sailing dinghies taking part in a race from Deal to Ramsgate were missing. There was a fresh south-westerly...

MARCH MEETING NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.

Shortly before eight in the morning of the 23rd January, 1940, three motor fishing boats, each with three men on board, saw the British steamer Baltanglia and the Norwegian...

The Liverpool class lifeboat Ti/lie Morrison Sheffield II - seen here in RNLI service at Bridlington - is now a tripper boat in New Zealand. Walter Baguley's letter (left) reminds us that she served as a lifeboat in Sumner, New Zealand,... - View image in PDF

IN MEMORIAM CAISTER LIFE-BOAT DISASTER (14th November, 1901).

"The Caister men never turn back." (As reported at the Inquest, 15th November.)(The old Coxswain speaks)— WHAT is this we have done ? Why, our duty,...

Cullercoats, Northumberland. — At eleven o'clock on the morning of the of the 3rd of July, 1955, the beach superintendent at Whitley Bay rang up the life-boat coxswain to say that a boat had burnt flares in Whitley Bay and appeared to be...

Galway Bay. At 5.30 p.m. on i8th February, 1966, the local medical officer of health informed the honorary secretary that he had taken a woman patient from Inishmaan Island to Kilronan in a small fishing boat, but due to weather conditions...

APRIL MEETING MONTROSE, ANGUS. At about 10 in the morning of the 24th March, 1942, the lifeboat coxswain and two other men were about to enter harbour in a motor boat, when they saw an aeroplane fall into the sea. The sea was smooth and a...

STAINLESS STEEL ROPE FOR RIGGING NOMINAL DIAMETER Milli- Inches metres (appro*) STANDING RIGGING RUNNING RIGGING MINIMUM B R E A K I N G LOAD (LBS) 2 2-5 3 4 5 6 7 5/64" 1/8" 5/32" 3/1 6" 1 '4" 9 32" 5,1...