LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Silver Prince
The Humber, Yorkshire.—Early on the morning of the 3rd October the lifeboat watchman saw a vessel ashore on the Inner Binks. The weather was then fine, with fog patches. The motor life-boat City of Bradford II was launched at 5.35 A.M., and...
Success, Provider A and Pilot Me II
Whit by, Yorkshire.—About ten o'clock in the morning, on the 13th of March, 1950, the No. 1 life-boat crew assembled as three fishing vessels were approaching the harbour in bad weather. At 10.50 the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was...
Rasmus
Three snatched to safety in atrocious weather conditions Coxswain Ron Cannon of Ramsgate lifeboat has been awarded the RNLI's Silver Medal for bravery, with Emergency Mechanic Timothy Hurst and Crew Member Lance Oram receiving Thanks on...
Review
The Book of the Sea. By T. C. BRIDGES. (George Gf. Harrap & Co. 7s. 6rf. net.) IN this book of 280 odd pages of large print, admirably illustrated, Mr. Bridges has succeeded in compressing an extraordinary number of facts, almost...
Category: Articles
Radio-Telephony In Life-Boats
AN article by my predecessor on the use of wireless in life-boats appeared in the number of this journal for December, 1937. It was then eleven years since the Institution had begun its experiments with wireless by installing a...
Category: Articles
A Rowing Boat (1)
Moelfre, Anglesey.—At 9.40 on the evening of the 7th of August, 1953, the coxswain received a message that three people had gone out fishing at six o'clock in a small rowing boat fitted with an outboard motor, and that they had not...
Ben Meidie
Wick, Caithness-shire, and Longhope, Orkneys. At 11.26 on the night of the 7th of October, 1958, the coastguard at Kirkwall informed the honorary secre- tary at Longhope that the trawler Ben Meidie of North Shields was ashore on the Pentland...
Ben Meidie (1)
Wick, Caithness-shire, and Longhope, Orkneys. At 11.26 on the night of the 7th of October, 1958, the coastguard at Kirkwall informed the honorary secre- tary at Longhope that the trawler Ben Meidie of North Shields was ashore on the Pentland...
Lady Alice
Hastings, Sussex. At 11.55 on the morning of the 1st July, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that there had been an explosion, followed by fire, on board a vessel about two and a half miles off the Fairlight estate....
Preston
The steam-trawler Preston, of Pittinweem, bound for North Shields with fish, stranded about 1.20 A.M. on the 24th May, to the south-east of the coast- guard station. The Life-boat Meliscent was immediately launched in answer to her distress...