LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Kate
NORTH DEAL.—Signal rockets and guns having been fired by the Gull Light-vessel on the 4th January, the Life-boat Mary Somerville was launched at about 6.15 P.M., and proceeded towards the Goodwin Sands. The wind was blowing moderately from...
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part III—In Frame
so, THE KEEL is LAID. A baulk of teak, shaped to match templates taken off the full size lines plans drawn out on the loft floor. It rests on blocks so set that they will bring the boat up to a convenient height for building. The keel slopes...
Category: Articles
Loss of Thurso Life-Boat and Boathouse
ON the morning of Monday, the 10th of December, 1956, the Thurso life- boat, Dunnet Head (Civil Service No.
31) and the life-boathouse were totally destroyed by fire. The fire was first noticed shortly after seven...
Category: Articles
Meda
At about 9.30 P.M. on the 8th May, during an easterly gale and very heavy sea, Thomas W. Rowntree, Coxswain of the No. 3 Life-boat, Horatio Brand, observed a schooner approaching the harbour, and shortly afterwards she made a...
Annual Meeting
The Prince of Wales's Presidential Address.
THE Hundred and Seventh Annual Meet- ing of the Governors of the Institution was held at the Central Hall, West- minster, on Wednesday, 13th May, at 2.30...
Category: Meetings
Yvette
FRENCH FISHERMEN SHELTERED St. Mary's, Scffly Islands.—At about 8.0 in the evening of the 8th of April, 1947, the coastguard reported that a French fishing vessel, with a crew of twenty, was ashore on Queens Ledge Rocks. A moderate...
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Dover, Kent. At 4.41 on the after- noon of the 16th of May, 1959, the coastguard at Sandgate informed the honorary secretary that two people were cut off by the tide at Big Fall, St.
Margaret's Bay. After talking with...
A National Fire Service Float
APRIL 7TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 6.25 P.M. the naval control asked for the help of the life-boat with a national fire service float which was in difficulties at the loading pier. A S.W. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. The...
Two Trawlers
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford. At 9.10 on the evening of the 3rd of Decem- ber, 1959, a Mayday message wasreceived from two trawlers that they were ashore on the rocks four miles north-east of Dunmore East. The life- boat Annie Blanche...
A Motor Boat
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 11.49 on the night of the 7th of August, 1953, the police reported that eight people had left Groomsport in a motor boat at six o'clock and had been due back at 9.30. As they were still missing, the life-boat Sir...