LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Help of Shipowners. A Record of Services to One Hundred Vessels
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Category: Donations
Two Fishing Cobles
At about 11 A.M. on the 13th February, J. Crawford, the Second Coxswain of the Lifeboat Queensbury, received information that two cobles were in difficulties about four miles off Scarborough, and as the sea was very rough and becoming worse...
The S.S. Lemnos
The Life-boat was launched to the s.s. Lemnos, of Dundee, which stranded about a mile S.E. of the South Gare on the 16th December. The weather was thick and cold at the time and the Life-boat stood by the vessel. Whilst there the master...
Random Harvest
Montrose, Angus. During the after- noon of the llth of September, 1959, reports reached Montrose that the fishing boat Random Harvest had been in collision and was being escorted into harbour by the Aberdeen trawler Strathlossie. At 4.40 it...
A Father's Advice
A LADY sending a donation from Brighton writes : " Reading your appeal in my paper last week made me remember words of my late father which he often spoke, when my brothers and myself were children: ' Never, never pass a life-boat...
Category: Donations
Imagine the Sealed Orange Superstructure As a Permanently Inflated Air Bag'
Imagine the sealed orange superstructure as a permanently inflated air bag' and it is easier to imagine the upward lorce it is generating as this Tyne class hleooai rolls upright. This view also shows how the height of the upperworks... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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On service in thick fog without radar A service to a yacht, unsure of its position in very dense fog and running low on fuel off Arran was conducted by the Campeltown lifeboat, with support from the Arran inshore lifeboat, in poor visibility...