LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Zircon
On the bar TWO RED FLARES sighted on the south side of Portmadoc Estuary, near and inside the bar, were reported to the honorary secretary of Pwllheli lifeboat station by Coastguard Porthdinllaen at 0035 on Thursday, September 1. The wind...
Mermaid
At 8 A.M. on the 13th December a large barque, which proved to be the Mermaid, of Cardiff, bound from Quebec to Liverpool with a cargo of timber—was seen at anchor just clear of the banks lying at the mouth of the Eibble, and displaying...
Kingston Turquoise and two Rafts
SURVIVORS ON RAFT Stromness, Orkneys. At 5 p.m. on 25th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that they had received a Mayday from the trawler Kingston Turquoise of Hull approximate position fourteen miles northnorth-...
Inshore Lifeboats: Dedication of Eastney and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Atlantic 21S
Dedication of The Waveney Forester at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and of Guide Friendship II at Eastney.SIR ALEC ROSE took part in the dedication of both Atlantic 21 The Waveney Forester at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston on July 29 and of...
Category: Inaugurations
Heron II
Rescued two FOLLOWING SEVERAL 999 CALLS from citizen band radio operators reporting a distress call from the cabin cruiser Heron II, Liverpool Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Flint lifeboat station at 1945 on the evening of...
Noble
FRASERBURGH.—On the 6th June the coxswain of the Life-boat observed a vessel—the schooner Noble, of Banff, laden with coal from Sunderland—driving towards the rocks. A heavy sea was running at the time, and it was deemed advisable to have...
Guidesman
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 4.40 in the morning, on the 1st of December, 1950, the pier signal station sent a message that the motor tanker Guides- man, of London, was ashore off Scar's Elbow Buoy, near Canvey Island. At 5.25 the...
Gull
Margate, Kent. At 2.40 on the afternoon of the 22nd of May, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser, which had been under observation, appeared to have broken down and was drifting with the tide about seven...
Sylvia
Longhope, Orkneys. — Early on the morning of the 31st of January, 1957, the fishing yawl Sylvia, of Kirkwall, put out for lobster fishing. Before she was due to return a strong gale blew up, and as it was known that it would be extremely...
An Experimental Motor Life-Boat
THE Committee of Management of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have now for many years had the problem before their mind of the suc- cessful employment of a motor in a Life-boat, so as to assist by mechanical means, and thus relieve...
Category: Articles