LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Services
ON the evening of 20th January last year the Danish motor fishing vessel Opal sailed from Buckle and set a course for the Fladden fishing grounds. At about 10.30 p.m. it was discovered that the engine room was flooding. Both main bilge and...
Category: Services
M.F.V. Venture
MFV standing into danger SHEERNESS deputy launching authority heard from Warden Point Coastguard at 2200 on March 22,1974, that a boat three-quarters of a mile east north east of the Coastguard lookout was exhibiting red hand flares and was...
Fraserburgh June 25 1986:
Fraserburgh, June 25, 1986: The arrival of the Duke of Kent was heralded by the skirl of bagpipes as lifeboatman Robert Morrice, piper for the day, led the official party to the platform where the Duke was to name the town's new 47ft... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Past and Present
25 years ago From The Life-Boat of 1970 At the RNLJ's Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards in 1970 the then Chairman, Admiral Woods, referred to the recent formation of the Yachtsman's Lifeboat Supporters Association -...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
LINCOLNSHIRE.—The Lincolnshire Shipwreck Society—the last remaining of the County Shipwreck Associations — having been brought into union with the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, the latter has completely renovated the four life-boat...
Category: Articles
Lighthouse Telegraphs and Fog-Signals
THE Schiller disaster served to turn public attention to the question of Fog-signals and Alarms; and some interest was felt in the evidence taken before the BOARD or TRADE Court of Inquiry, apart from that naturally induced by the details of...
Category: Articles
City of Edinburgh
A message by telephone was received from the North Hasborough Light-vessel stating that a vessel was in need of assistance on the morning of the 5th June.
The. weather was. foggy, the sea was very heavy and a moderate gale...
Teresa
WORTHING.— On the 10th February, at about 5.50 P.M., the schooner Teresa,, of Weymoata, bound from Guernsey to London, with granite, was observed drivj ing on shore. A strong gale of wind from the S. was blowing and the sea was...
Garson
The No. 1 Life-boat Covent Garden was also launched at 1 A.M. on the 18th November in reply to large flares which, bad been observed in the direction, of the North Scroby Sand, when the barge Qm-son, of Wisbeaeli, was discovered riding at...
Ephrussi (1)
HARWICH AND ALDEBURGH.—Signals having been made by the light-vessels, the Springwell Life-boat stationed at Harwich and the Aldeburgh Life-boat at Aldeburgh were launched at 8 A.M. on the 5th June, and proceeded to the Shipwash Sands where...