LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Old England
ENGRAVED CRYSTAL GLASS LIFEBOAT TANKARDS Profiles of some of RNLI's offshore fleet, strikingly engraved on half or one pint Crystal Glass Tankards. Order individually or as sets, selecting the craft of your choice from the illustrations...
Category: Advertisement
A Yacht
ESCORT FOR YACHT AFTER SHE REFLOATS Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 8.40 on the evening of the 4th August, 1962, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of a message received from the police that a local man had taken a woman and two...
Sea Adventure
ADVENTURE AT SEA Dungeness, Kent. At 2.50 p.m. on 8th August, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that a fishing boat had broken down and was lying at anchor half a mile off Littlestone. Her crew were waving for help while they baled her...
S.S.. Princess, H.M. Trawler Dandora
JANUARY 11TH . - ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At 5.45 A.M. a message was received from the Croyde Coastguard that distress signals had been received from the S.S.. Princess, in a position near Elwill Bay.
An easterly breeze was...
Joass
Margate, Kent.—At 7.50 in the even- ing of the 24th of July, 1948, the coast- guard telephoned a message, received from a steamer through North Foreland Radio, that a sailing yacht wa's aground on Tongue Sands, four miles south-east of...
Out on a shout
What do you understand by the term ‘shout’ in lifeboating? Is it simply the launch or the entire rescue mission? Is it derived literally from the call to action and who used it first – volunteeers or the mass media? Searching the newly...
Category: Articles
The Underwater Shape of the Tyne Class Hull Is Well Illustrated During a Capsize Trial Note the Soft Round Bilges Deep Fine Bow and the Propellers Recessed Into Shallow
The underwater shape of the Tyne class hull is well illustrated during a capsize trial. Note the soft, round bilges, deep, fine bow and the propellers recessed into shallow tunnels and protected by long skegs.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Naming Ceremony at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight
LADY MOTTISTONE named a new motor life-boat at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, on 5th September. The new boat is of the 46-feet Watson cabin type de- scribed on page 194. She is the first motor life-boat to be built with Diesel instead of petrol...
Category: Inaugurations
Spaarnestroom and S.S. Waldemar Sieg (1)
Dover, and Walmer, Kent.—At 10.48 on the night of the 20th of March, 1953, the Sandgate coastguard rang up the Dover life-boat station to say that the motor vessel Spaarnestroom, of Amsterdam, which had been in colli- sion with the S.S....
Dinghies
Mass Capsize AT 3.11 p.m. on May 28 it was learnt that dinghies from the Shoreham, Sussex, yacht club were capsizing and theyacht club rescue craft did not seem able to cope with them, in particular one dinghy 100 yards off the harbour. The...