LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Life-Boat Transporting Carriage
WORK has been in progress for some years to produce a new carriage for transporting life-boats down to the sea at stations where there is no suitable harbour and no means of launching a life-boat down a slipway. For some time the need has...
Category: Articles
Crew Rescued After Vessel Strikes Life-Boat
AT 2.1 on the afternoon of 18th Novem- ber, 1962, the honorary secretary of the Blyth life-boat station, Captain H.
Rowe, was informed by the coastguard that a small coaster was in difficulties off Blyth Fairway buoy. Two...
Category: Services
Many Efforts Were Directed Towards a Particular Goal Sir Alec Rose Pays In a 'Cheque' for Hampshire Rose Appeal at Lloyds Bank Helped By the Manager W G Todd T
Many efforts were directed towards a particular goal. . . Sir Alec Rose pays in a 'cheque' for Hampshire Rose appeal at Lloyds Bank, helped by the manager, W. G.
Todd, treasurer Peters fie Id lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Fishing Vessel
Scottish crews out in numbers Ravaged by remnants of the hurricane season, the British Isles were soaked and windswept in late summer 2004. At the end of one of the wettest Augusts on record, the rough sea conditions off the northern tip of...
Left: Launching the Experimental Boat
Left: Launching the experimental boat at DML with a Trent class lifeboat shown behind).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sailing Yacht and a Rowing Boat
SAVED YACHTSMAN ADDRESSES CROWD OF ONLOOKERS Falmouth, Cornwall. At two o'clock on the afternoon of Sunday the 18th of August, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing yacht had capsized and sunk off...
Shoreline
ONE SUNDAY in July I had the great pleasure of meeting lifeboatmen from Blyth, the station on the north east coast of England for which the Rother lifeboat being funded by the Shoreline appeal is destined. Motor Mechanic Colin Cutherbertson,...
Category: Articles
David M. (1)
Caiiter, and Great Yarmouth and Gorlet- ton.Norf oik.—At 7.55 in the morningof the 2nd of April, 1949, the Great Yarmouth coastguard telephoned to the Caister life-boat station information, received from Lloyd's agents, that the motor...
Past and Present
From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT of August 1892 THE WRECK OF THE EIDER On the night of Sunday 31st January 1892 the four-masted s.s. Eider of Bremen, 4,719 tons register, bound from New York for Southampton, en route for Bremen, stranded on...
Category: Articles
A Boat
EASTNEY, HAMPSHIRE, ILB crew were alerted at 0315 on September 7, 1974, when the honorary secretary was informed by Shoreham Coastguard that red flares had been seen in the vicinity of Langstone Channel. ILB D184 was launched at 0343, by...