LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sultan & Pet
About 3.30 P.M. on the 6th March a ketch was seen trying to beat up for Tenby Roads, but when about three-and-a-half miles off, her canvas was all blown away.
There was a whole N.N.W. gale at the time and the sea was very...
Mary Kate
BROADSTAIRS.—The Life-boat Francis Forbes Barton was launched at 4.5 P.M.
on the 14th February, while a gale of wind was blowing from N., accompanied by a heavy sea, a barge, with a signal of distress flying, having been...
Menai Packet
On the 11th November, at about 5 P.M., the smack Menai Packet, of Carnarvon, bound from Swansea to Newry, with coal, which was riding at anchor in Forthdinllaen Bay, showed a signal of distress.
As the •wiad -was not...
Twins
GIRVAN.—On the forenoon of the 6th February the wind commenced, to blow very strongly with blinding showers of snow. Several fishing-boats returned, but six of them were missing and as it was thought that the snowstorm had prevented their...
Perilous Play
RescUe PeRILoUs PLAY swept along by the powerfully ebbing tide, a 9-year-old girl’s survival depended on the reaction of her local lifeboat crew a powerful ebbing tide, a 9-year-old girl’s Jade Kerrison was playing with a friend at south...
Category: Articles
New Teesmouth Life-Boat Named
LADY CRATHORNE named the new Teesmouth life-boat Sarah Jane and James Season at a ceremony at the life-boat house on the 28th of May, 1960. The life-boat, which is one of the 47-feet Watson type, was pro- vided out of legacies from the late...
Category: Inaugurations
Carmen
DUTCH VESSEL AGROUND IN FOG Barry Dock, Glamorganshire. At 10.33 on the night of the 25th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Carmen of Groningen was ashore on the west side of Sulley Island....
Fidelity
Fishermen plucked to safety from vessel in danger of capsize Coxswain John C. Murray of Buckle lifeboat station has been congratulated on the 'leadership, determination and skill' he displayed during a service to the fishing vessel...
Benachie
Moorings parted PENTLAND COASTGUARD telephoned the honorary secretary of Kirkwall lifeboat station at 0915 on Sunday January 22, 1984, to report that the 16-ton fishing vessel Benachie had parted her moorings and gone on to the beach on the...
Capsizing Tests on 44-002
As we closed for press the life-boat 44-002 John F. Kennedy, the first of the Institution's fleet of six 44-ft. steel life-boats, was undergoing trials at Lowestoft, Suffolk. Here she is shown during capsizing and self-righting tests at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs