LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lady Gladys
PENZANCE. — On the 4th March a whole gale blew from the W., the sea was high, and the weather very squally, with heavy showers of hail. At 9.30 A.M. the barque Lady Gladys, of Tonsberg, bound from Darien, U.S., to Dublin, with pitch pine,...
A Longshore Boat and a Motor Boat
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 2.39 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a party of naturalists had gone to Scroby Sands in a longshore boat and a small motor boat in the...
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SICK MAN TAKEN TO MAINLAND St. Mary's, Scilly Islands. At 11.40 on the morning of the 6th January, 1962, a local doctor asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat could take a man to Penzance for an emergency operation for acute...
Cover Picture
by Colin Watson Clogher Head's Mersey class lifeboat Doris Bleasdale punches through a steep sea in nasty conditions on her home patch.
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Category: Photographs
M.V. Lovat
MV Lovat sinks ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1975, HM Coastguard informed the honorary secretary of Penlee lifeboat at 0637 that MV Lovat had broadcast a mayday call and that her crew were abandoning ship.
The reported position...
William Jones and Sylph
THURSO.—The Life-boat Charley Lloyd was launched at 10 o'clock on the night of the 26th November, during a heavy gale from the N., snow, and a high sea, to the assistance of the schooners William Jones, of Carnarvon, and Sylph, of...
People and profit
Christmas is a time when many people choose to support the RNLI by buying cards and gifts from the charity – but what makes these purchases different?
You might be familiar with the RNLI's mail order catalogue, but did...
Category: Articles
Progress
LLANDUDNO, CARNARVONSHIRE.—At 4 o'clock in the afternoon on the 12th February, a message was received from the Orme's Head Light House that a schooner was displaying signals of distress about three miles off in a northwesterly...
Frieda
Overdue BELFAST COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Portaferry lifeboat station at 1815 on Sunday December 19, 1982, that the yacht Frieda, on passage in Strangford Lough betweeen Killyleagh and Ringshaddy, had been reported...
Waterballasting for Inshore Lifeboats
ONE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS of inflatable and semi-rigid boats which makes them particularly suitable for rescue work at sea is their inherent stability; and the lower in the water they are, with their wetted beam increased, the greater their...
Category: Articles