LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Major Ernest Cooper
BY the death of Major Ernest Read Cooper, of Woodbridge, Suffolk, on the llth of February, at the age of 83, the Life-boat Service lost an old and distinguished friend. Born at Blythburgh, Suffolk, in 1865,- he spent the greater part of his...
Category: Obituaries
Life-Boat Fund Raising from Coins and Stamps
AS a new recruit to the R.N.L.I. (1968 vintage) I hope that members of long standing are not offended by being told what they have always known. There may be, however, people even greener than myself who might benefit. The reason I think my...
Category: Articles
The John and Edmund
men.
About 10 P.M. on the 7th December the coxswain of the No. 3 Life-boat observed a signal light being burned from a vessel in the bay, apparently making for West Hartlepool. The ship suddenly altered her course, and ran...
M.V. Timber Skipper
Standing by ON TUESDAY, January 14, at 0345, Rosslare Harbour honorary secretary received a telephone message from Rosslare Pier that MV Timber Skipper of London, carrying a crew of seven, had gone aground in very high seas 4 nautical miles...
The First of the Atlantic 21S,
The first of the Atlantic 21s, and the forerunner of all rigid inflatables now widely used for commercial and leisure purposes.
Developed at Atlantic College and using a rigid buoyant floor surrounded by a continuous... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Levant, of Brixham
The No. 1 Life- boat, the Sisters, on this station, assisted a steam-tug to convey the schooner Levant, of Brixham, into port on the llth No- vember. It was blowing hard from E.S.E., i when the Levant struck and ultimately was ! driven...
A Sailing Boat
Howth, Co. Dublin. At 9.30 on the night of the 13th October, 1961, an hotel manager told the honorary sec- retary that a friend of his had left Howth in a small outboard sailing boat with another man and a girl for Dun Laoghaire, and that...
Speed Boats, Dinghies, Canoes, Yachts, Cabin Cruisers and a Trimaran
Poole is one of the RNLI's busiest lifeboat stations with a 'patch' which contains some of the best beaches on the South Coast and the world's second largest natural harbour. Although the harbour is sheltered, it is packed...
Welsh Prince
On the 17th October the steam trawler Welsh Prince, of and for North Shields, laden with fish, stranded on the rocks known as Limpet Hills, in foggy weather.
The wind was blowing from the S.E. and there was a heavy surf on...
Diana III
Walton and Frinton, Essex. — About 6.15 in the evening, on the 8th of April, 1950, the Walton coastguard telephoned a message from the Felixstowe coast- guard, that a yacht near the Black Stakes, north-west of the Naze, seemed to be in...