LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Testing of a New Life-Boat
IN November 1908 and in February this year an account was given in the Life-boat Journal of the steps taken to select a new Life-boat, and also some Notes of the way she is built. It may now be of interest to the coxswains and crews who man...
Category: Articles
A Vessel (1)
MARCH 20TH. - KILLYBEGS, CO. DONEGAL.
Information was received through the military and the police at noon that a partly submerged boat or raft was drifting towards the rocks at Rosskearagh Point, Sligo. A west-north-west...
Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1795—1900. No. 1
To review the progress made in the Life-boats used on the Coast of Great Britain between the years 1785 and 1900 would be practically to go into the whole history of Life-boat construction, but it is intended in this article only to touch...
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A Speed Boat
Rhyl, Flintshire - At 4.30 a.m. on 22nd September, 1969, the honorary secretary received an anticipatory message from the coastguard reporting that a speedboat with three men on board was overdue from a fishing trip. At 8.13 the coastguard...
Fifty-Two Lives Rescued. A Bronze-Medal Service at Torbay
A Bronze-Medal Service at Torbay.
EARLY in the morning of 23rd January the 4,000-ton steamer English Trader, of London, ran ashore on Checkstone Ledge, at the entrance to Dartmouth harbour, owing to the temporary failure...
Category: Services
A Sailing Boat (1)
Swanage, Dorset.—3rd July, 1938. A small sailing boat had got into difficulties, but a motor cruiser took her in tow.—Rewards, £5 12s..
A Rowing Boat
Clacton-on-Sea, and Walton and Frin- ton, Essex. At 5.10 on the afternoon of the 4th November, 1961, an antici- patory message was received at Clacton from the coastguard that two men in a local rowing boat were overdue. They had set out...
Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 4.—The 35-Feet 6 Inches Self-righting Type
UNTIL 1921 all the Institution's motor life-boats were of a weight which made it necessary that they should either lie afloat or be launched down a slip-way.
In that year, the first boat was sta- tioned at Eastbourne of...
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A Steamer (15)
DEC. 12TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, AND CAISTER, NORFOLK.
A steamer had been reported to be on fire after striking a mine, but a trawler had picked up five survivors and nothing else was found but some wreckage. -...
A Steamer (16)
DEC. 12TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, AND CAISTER, NORFOLK.
A steamer had been reported to be on fire after striking a mine, but a trawler had picked up five survivors and nothing else was found but some wreckage. -...