LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Helen Blake
Helen Blake is the sole example of a design intended for use in confined waters. The War intervened and no others were built.
She spent her 20 years of service on the Liffey Estuary in Ireland.
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Category: Photographs
Stella Maria
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - at 9.5 p.m. on yth August, 1967, the coastguard reported that a yacht was firing flares seven miles south of the Needles. The Dutch vessel Advent was standing by.
The owner of the yacht had been...
Violet, of Fraserburgh
FEBRUARY 23RD. - GIRVAN, AYRSHIRE.
At 6.15 in the evening the coastguard reported a fishing boat ashore on the north side of the entrance channel to Girvan harbour and asking for help. A light northwesterly wind was blowing...
Rose Mary
DECEMBER 7TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
When the evening came the local motor fishing boat Rose Mary had not returned and anxiety was felt for her safety.
About eleven o’clock the coastguard reported a small...
Celebrating life and remembering our friends
Remembering Craig Steadman
Over the past year, volunteers and supporters at Holyhead and Barmouth Lifeboat Stations have been working tirelessly to fund a new lifeboat in memory of Craig Steadman. Craig, a Holyhead crew...
Category: Obituaries
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Exhausting Cliff Service THE Barmouth, Merionethshire, IRB on 21st June, 1971, was requested to help in evacuating a badly injured woman who had fallen down cliff's at Friog. In view of the prevailing weather conditions the life-boat was...
The Life-Boat
The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat is...
Category: Articles
Victory
On the 4th November, when the local motor fishing boat Victory was at sea, the weather broke and freshened with a gale from the eastward. A heavy sea was run- ning. A watch was kept, and at 1.30 P.M., when the Victory was seen in the offing,...
Fishing Boats
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 10.30 A.M. on the 15th January the harbour entrance became very dangerous, owing to the bad races of sea which were running in. Danger signals were hoisted and the pulling and sailing life-boat Lizzie...
A Yacht (2)
Newhaven, Sussex. At 1.45 a.m. on 2nd August, 1965, red flares were observed in Seaford Bay. The Newhavea life-boat Kathleen Mary was launched at 1.57 a.m. She found a small yacht in difficulties with torn sails and outboard engine out of...