LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Laura and Prospector
Donaghadee, Co. Down.—Early in the afternoon of the 9th January, 1939, a man reported that his son and two other men who had gone out in the motor fishing boat Laura to shoot cod lines had not returned when expected.
Strong...
Havoc, Kermit and Guilding Star
Search in fog A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC reported to Tynemouth Coastguard on Saturday June 14, 1980, that a ship's foghorn had been heard east of Berwick Lighthouse.
Berwick lifeboat station was informed at 1310 and five...
Silent, of Cowes
The Bembridge Motor Life-boat went out on 7th December to the help of the ketch Silent, of Cowes, and found her with her head sails blown away and her windlass smashed. Although she was sinking, the men on board refused to leave her, so the...
Clipper
Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 5.45 on the morning of the 18th of October, 1958, the coastguard at Orlock in- formed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Clipper of Rotterdam was aground on the Maidens off Larne. At 6.10 the life-boat Sir...
Feature Expansion and Consolidation
The Life-boat journal was first published at a time of immense change for the Institution. In an extract from his book Riders of the Storm, Ian Cameron recounts some of the major events from that period of the RNLI's history.The...
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Cicerone
During the morn- ing of the 13th June, the Life-boat Charles and Susanna Stephens was launched in answer to guns from the East Goodwin Light-vessel, and on reaching her found the crew of the schooner Cicerone, five in number, taking refuge...
An R.A.F. Aeroplane (1)
FEBRUARY 22ND. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An R.A.F. aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat was recalled by wireless before she reached the position given.- Rewards, £12 5s. 6d..
Life-Saving Hammocks and Mattresses
IN our August Number we inserted a Paper by ADMIRAL RIDER on the great advantage that would accrue if the ham- mocks in ships of -war could be made to serve as life-buoys, in the event of a ship suddenly foundering; more especially as in...
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Junio
On trials and passage EVEN BEFORE a new lifeboat reaches her station she is very likely to have started her service to seafarers. The 33ft Brede lifeboat Caroline Finch, which was placed on service at Exmouth lifeboat station on August 4,...
A Boat (1)
SMALL BOAT ADRIFT New Brighton, Cheshire. At 6.40 p.m. on 7th October, 1964, the stageman told the honorary secretary that a small boat was adrift in midstream off Brazil buoy, in the river Mersey. Three men were on board and she was...