LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Newstead
During a moderate westerly gale and heavy sea on the 18th March, information reached Newhaven at 7.25 A.M. that a steamer was ashore one mile west of Cuckmere.
The Life-boat was promptly launched and proceeded to the place...
Hongi
End of voyage A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC made a 999 call to the Police early on the morning of Saturday October 16, 1982, reporting a catamaran flashing a white light about 100 yards off Sidmouth Beach, 9Vz miles east north east of Exmouth...
The Development of the Lifeboat By Eric Middleton
THE EVER INCREASING SPEED of Scientific and technological advance over recent years has naturally made itself felt in the design, construction and equipment of lifeboats throughout the world. So rapid have these changes been in the second...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Calendar for 1931
THE Life-boat Calendar for 1931 is now ready. In previous years the calendars have reproduced paintings of Life-boat rescues. This year it is the portrait of a Life-boatman—a reproduction of a pen and ink drawing of the late Coxswain William...
Category: Advertisement
The Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE " season " of the Life-boat Saturday Collections throughout the country opened this year under very favourable auspices, and the Committees, greatly encouraged by the excellent certificate recently given to the movement by the...
Category: Articles
Stone, steel and lifeboats
Our All-weather Lifeboat Centre (ALC) in Poole, Dorset, is really taking shape, and the project team are on target to open the doors for lifeboat maintenance in January 2015. The ALC will go on to build six all-weather lifeboats a year,...
Category: Articles
Ariadne Johanna
Berwick-on- Tweed, Northumberland.
—At 1.40 on the afternoon of the 23rd of August, 1954, the coastguard rang up to say that the motor fishing vessel Ariadne Johanna, of Schevenin- gen, which was one mile east of the pier,...
Mon Ami
OCT. 25TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX.
At 2.45 P.M. the coastguard reported having received a message from a resident of Hollandon- Sea, that a small rowing boat with three men on board appeared to be in difficulties about...
Friends, Provide Us and Serene (1)
Cobles escorted in gale THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Flamborough lifeboat station was told by HM Coastguard at 1010 on Saturday October 15, 1983, that a number of Bridlington based open angling cobles were fishing north of Flamborough Head in...
Achieve
Stromness, Orkneys.—At 8.55 on the evening of the 19th of September, 1956, a message was received that a man had heard on his wireless that the' motor vessel Achieve needed help as she was ashore in Hoy Sound. At 9.20 the life-boat...