LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Albion
On the 11th November, at 3 A.M., signal rockets were fired from the Gull Lightship, and were answered by a rocket from Ramsgate pier-head. The Life-boat Bradford and steam-tug Aid were at once manned, left the harbour at 3.15, and proceeded...
James Napier
MR. JAMES NAPIER, a member of the Committee of Management since 1934, died on the 13th of November, 1953.
From 1934 to 1939 he was a member of the Boat Committee. A ship- builder by profession, he was chairman of the Steel...
Category: Obituaries
Fishing Vessels (1)
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 9.30 on the morning of the 1st of October, 1952, the life-boat bowman, reported that the wind had freshened, causing a heavy sea and swell. The local fishing vessels were at sea, and at 10.0 the No. 1 life- boat Mary...
Holly
Twelve minutes of terror It took Port Talbot's inshore lifeboat crew just a few minutes to save a life at sea but the three found their training and courage tested to the limit On the morning of 10 January 2006 a call came through to...
Hermiston
The steamer Hermiston, of Glasgow, whilst bound from Antwerp to Shields in ballast, stranded on the north cheek of Robin Hood's Bay on the 19th May.
There was a dense fog at the time, with a light breeze and moderate...
High, but not dry
5 November 2011: Whitby’s D class lifeboat OEM Stone III sped to the cliffs west of Whitby Harbour, where two people cut off by the tide had tried to climb to safety and got stuck. A lifeboat crew member went...
Category: Articles
A Sailing Dinghy
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 6.3 on the evening of the 7th of July, 1952, the Wallasey police telephoned that a sailing dinghy had capsized in the river Mersey off Egremont, and that two people were in the water. The life-boat Edmund and Mary...
Maverick
Fishing boat aground AT 2319 on Saturday September 20, 1980, Shetland Coastguard informed Coxswain/Mechanic Hewitt Clark of Lerwick lifeboat station that the fishing vessel Maverick was aground on the east side of Fair Isle; she was listing...
George and Martha, and Mizpah
Newbiggin, and Blytb, Northumberland, —At about 10.50 A.M. on the 24th January, 1938, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat had been reported in difficulties off Old Hartley Bay and a little later that she was off Seaton Sluice Point...
Feature: a Pier Without Equal
A pier without equal It was the collision of the Bowbelle and Marchioness in 1989 and the resulting 51 deaths that led the Government to ask the RNLI to provide a lifeboat service on the Thames. Now the RNLI's busiest lifeboat station of...
Category: Articles