LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Deux Amis
At 12.45 a.m. on 27th June, 1966, concern was felt for the safety of the yacht Deux Amis and her crew of four.
She was overdue on passage from Granville and the weather was rapidly deteriorating.
There was...
Additional Rocket Stations
We learn from the 15th Annual Report of the Rocket Stations on the Coast of Yorkshire and elsewhere, just issued by Mr. CARTE, Ordnance Storekeeper at Hull, that during the past year two new rocket stations have been established at Portland...
Category: Articles
The Equipment of a Life-Boat. (Continued.)
The Sails of a Life-boat are of No. 5 or No. 6 canvas, made from the finest flax, and tanned with bark to render them rot-proof. They are now all cut with a very high peak, and consist in most cases of a jib and standing fore and mizen lugs,...
Category: Articles
M.F.V. Arctic Solatair, two Motor Boats and two Sailboards
Five calls WHEN, ON THE, AFTERNOON of Saturday September 17, 1983, the 35ft MFV Arctic Solatair picked up a floating rope around her propeller and went ashore at Skinningrove, about six miles south of Redcar, Tees Coastguard telelphoned the...
Dr Ian C Low
Dr Ian C Low CA, president of Broughty Ferry station branch for over 20 years. Dr low was an extremely generous benefactor to the lifeboat station for many years and was awarded a Silver badge in 1994..
Category: Obituaries
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Aith, Shetlands.—14th January. During the evening the coastguard at Lerwick telephoned that two rockets had been seen north of the Vee Skerries.
A moderate N.W. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and showers of snow....
A Motor Fishing Boat
Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire.—At 2.45 in the afternoon of the 26th of November, 1951, the honorary secre- tary was on the sea front and saw a local motor fishing boat two miles to the west of the life-boat station drift- ing rapidly. She had...
Support the Life-Boat Institution. Our Life-Boat Heroes
How came the might of England ? Not by the tongue or pen; Deeply it grew as a flower in the hearts of its bravest men.
And it scattered the seeds of heroes along the storm-swept shore, That they might work for glory,...
Category: Poetry
Cadets Pull It Off!
Edinburgh Beatty Sea Cadet Unit have for many years been energetic fund raisers on behalf of the RNLI in Scotland.
Last year they undertook a sponsored boat pull in their ASC class dinghy along the full 22 miles of Loch... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Barge disaster averted
Chiswick lifeboat crew were on exercise on 22 March when they were tasked to a barge drifting beam-on towards Hammersmith Bridge. The barge’s engine had stalled and would not restart, and she couldn’t deploy her anchor. The lifeboat took the...
Category: Articles