LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Two Small Fishing Boats
DECEMBER 2ND. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.
During the afternoon two small fishing boats were overtaken by bad weather. A strong westerly wind, increasing to gale force, was blowing, and the sea was rough. They were both...
In Addition to the Fast Hatch Experimental Boat, the R.N.L.I. Is Experimenting With Another Rescue Craft
In addition to the fast Hatch experimental boat, the R. N.L.I, is experimenting with another rescue craft - a craft designed by Mr. J. A. McLachlan, M.R.I.N.A., who served on the staff of the Institution as chief draughtsman from 1948 to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The National Service for Seafarers
THE National Service for Seafarers, which is held each autumn, in St.
Paul's Cathedral, took place on 15th October.
At this Service the Institution is, of course, always represented, but this being the...
Category: Articles
Corduff
MARCH 8TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. At about 2.30 in the morning the Cromer coastguard reported that an S.O.S. was being flashed one mile N. by W. from the Haisborough coastguard lookout, and the Cromer No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey was...
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JANUARY 19TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
An SOS call had been reported, but no vessel in distress or wreckage was found. - Rewards, £19 7s. 6d..
Proba
During a strong S.S.W. gale on the 17th February, the schooner Proba, of Bideford, whilst bound from Charlestown to London with a cargo of china clay stranded on the Brake Sands. Information of the casualty reached North Deal at 9.45 A.M.,...
American Ship Breaks In Two
AT 5.18 on the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1952, a Liberian ship wire- lessed that the S.S. Western Farmer, of New York, on passage from Norfolk (Virginia) to Bremen with a cargo of coal, had been in collision with the Norwegian tanker...
Category: Services
Centenaries In the North-West
Two life-boat stations in the north- west, Barrow and Blackpool, cele- brated their centenaries in April and June.
It was commercial travellers who raised money for the first 36-foot sail- ing life-boat to be stationed...
Category: Articles
Friendship, of Goole
The ketch Friendship, of Goole, having sprung a leak off St.
Abbs Head, would not steer and could not fetch a port, and she consequently drifted on the Annat sandbank, off Mon- trose, early on the morning of the 15th...