LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lorn
NOVEMBER 2lST. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. The engines of the Norwegian steamer Lorn, of Bergen, had broken down, but the steamer could not be found. Later it became known that the crew had repaired the engines and the steamer had gone on her...
A Fishing Fleet Calendar
Mr. Ford Jenkins has published a fishing fleet calendar for 1945. It has eight beautiful photographs of ships and the sea. Price 53. including postage, from H. Jenkins Ltd., 2 Pier Terrace, Lowestoft, not from the Institution..
Category: Articles
Wetterfrosch im Glas (Weatherfrog in a glass), 1887.
Before forecasting was an established science, many mariners relied on the behaviour of a certain tree frog to predict storms. Needless to say, it wasn’t terribly reliable and, even today, Germans use wetterfrosch colloquially to refer... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (185)
NOVEMBER 25TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE. A British bomber had crashed, her crew of four had come down by parachutes, and one of them was believed to have dropped in the sea, but it was found later that he, like the others, had come...
Calf Sound
Seven-hour service to cargo vessel in storm conditions Giving help to the 400-ton cargo vessel Calf Sound kept Eyemouth's 44ft Waveney busy for some seven hours in winds of up to Force 10 on 25 March 1988. The vessel was anchored about...
Johannesburg
At 6.30 A.M. on 8th February, the steam trawler Johannesburg, of Scarborough, ran ashore on the north side of Filey Brigg. She had a crew of nine on board. Information was given by the Coastguard and the Filey Pulling and Sailing Life-boat...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
DOVER.—While a strong gale was blow- ing from N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 25th March, 1898, two vessels in the bay showed signals of distress, and at 10 A.M. the Life-boat Lewis Morice put off to their assistance. She first...
Category: Services
"Life-Boat Saturday, Illustrated."
A SECOND issue of "Life-boat Saturday, Illustrated," published by John Heywood, of Manchester, price 6d., is now ready.
This well-written and admirably got- up paper brims over with information relative to the...
Category: Articles
Change of Gear
The familiar orange foul weather clothing worn by RNLI lifeboat crews in recent years will gradually be disappearing, in favour of a new kit in traffic yellow.
The Musto clothing (illustrated right) is based on the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Peveril
MARCH 5TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN.
During the afternoon the life-boat crew assembled as the fishing fleet was overdue, but their services were not needed until 7.15 in the evening. A strong north-north-west gale was then...