LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Catamaran
Disabled catamaran THE HONORARY SECRETARY OF Mudeford lifeboat station received a pager call from the Coastguard at 1845 on Wednesday July 11, 1984, after reports that a catamaran had overturned and was in difficulties off Chewton Bunny.<...
Brigadier-General Noel M. Lake, C.B.
BY the death last Christmas of Briga- dier-General Noel M. Lake, C.B., late of the Royal Engineers, at the age of 82, the Institution has lost a friend who for ten years gave it devoted service as a member of the Committee of Management....
Category: Obituaries
A Sailing Dinghy (2)
Selsey, Sussex - At 6.12 p.m. on 29th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht three-quarters of a mile west of Bognor pier was signalling for help. The life-boat Canadian Pacific launched at 6.24 in a...
Ocean Starlight
Mallaig, Inverness-shire - At 1.40 a.m. on 19th March, 1969, the honorary secretary learnt that the fishing boat Ocean Starlight was ashore on the rocks at the entrance to Mallaig harbour. The life-boat E. M. M. Gordon Cubbin slipped her...
The Motor Fishing Vessels Lead Us, The Golden Hope and Success
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY AT HARBOUR BAR Whitby, Yorkshire. At 7.45 on the evening of the 2nd March, 1962, the coxswain was in radio communication from his own boat with three local motor fishing vessels, which were at sea in deteriorating weather...
Kinnaird Head and Araby
DECEMBER 27TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 3 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a ship was sinking near the boom defence, and at 3.25 P.M. the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) was launched. A light...
The Bar Lightship
During a moderate N.N.E. gale on the night of 30th September, the Bar light-ship broke loose from her moorings and commenced to drift towards the banks. Her position was one of considerable danger, and signals of distress attracted the...
A History of Rockets
The First Sixty Years, by C. R.
Thompson, states in the form of a well-illustrated and well-produced booklet the story of the development of the Schermuly pistol rocket apparatus.
It was in May 1897 that...
Category: Articles
Fairey Marine
Marine FAIREY MARINE GROUP You should never need a lifeboat in your Fairey fast patrol boat, commercial vessel, high speed motor yacht or luxury off-shore power cruiser because they are designed and built to the highest standards of...
Category: Advertisement
The S.S. Carlston
Between 7 and 8 A.M. on the 8th March a steamer was observed on the Formby Spit, and as the westerly wind was in- creasing the Coxswain launched the Life-boat John and Henrietta. On reaching the vessel, which proved to be the...