LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Maid Margaret and Maid Mary
Port St. Mary, Isle of Man.—At 12.30 early on the morning of the llth of July, 1953, the harbour master told the life-boat station that a man had reported that his two sons had left Douglas in an eighteen-feet yacht.
They...
Cover Picture
by Rick Tomlinson/ Rothmans Sailing Donaghadee's Arun Class lifeboat City of Belfast shows her mettle in some heavy weather near her station.
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Category: Photographs
February (1)
DOWNINGS, CO. DONEGAL. While out fishing off Innisboffin Island on the 27th of November, 1942, the motor fishing boat Star of Hope, of Downings, foundered and sank while her herring nets were being hauled, and a fresh north-west breeze was...
Category: Services
Steam Life-Boats
THE question has often been asked—why are not life-boats propelled by steam power? It is a very natural question when we consider the difficulty of rowing any boat against a strong wind, and the much greater difficulty of doing so when, in...
Category: Articles
A Speed Boat and a Motor Boat
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire. At five o'clock on the afternoon of the 18th August, 1961, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that two boats which he had been asked to keep under observation were making no headway.
As...
B.P. Marketer
Kirkcudbright.—At nine o'clock on the morning of the 28th of December, 1956, a local resident informed the life-boat station that the tanker B.P.
Marketer was in trouble in very bad weather in Dhoon Bay. At 9.52 the...
St. Olof
On the 10th November, signals ol distress having been shown by the Cork Light, the Life-boat Springwett was launched at 2.45 A.M., and on arriving at the Cork Light found that they were answering signals from the Sunk...
Naming Ceremonies of Motor Life-Boats
DURING the summer the Naming Cere- monies were held for four new Motor Life-boats, the Manchester and, Salford, the Centenary gift of the Manchester and Salford Branch; the Milburn, the gift of the late Sir Charles Stamp Milburn and Mr....
Category: Inaugurations
Rosebud
The fishing- smack Rosebud, of Dublin, when making for the harbour about 11 A.M. on the 7th March, was driven on the south wall close to the bar. It was blowing a moderate gale from S.W., and the vessel commenced to bump heavily and for some...
Linda
Sunderland, Co. Durham. At 5.15 on the afternoon of the 25th of June, 1960, when the life-boat crew were in the boathouse after an exercise, the coxswain received a report from the owner of the fishing boat Linda that he had lent the boat to...