LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Last of the Sailing Life-Boats
As the last of the sailing life-boats was replaced by a motor life-boat on the 12th of December, 1948, the term motor lifeboat will no longer be used. " Life-boat" will mean "motor life-boat." The one boat remaining which...
Category: Inaugurations
The First of the Atlantic 21S,
The first of the Atlantic 21s, and the forerunner of all rigid inflatables now widely used for commercial and leisure purposes.
Developed at Atlantic College and using a rigid buoyant floor surrounded by a continuous... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Steamers Melissa and The Balmerino
On the afternoon of the 19th December the coxswain was warned that a vessel was ashore at Blackburn Rock, south of Ayr. A moderate S.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea, and the weather was thick. The motor life-boat Sir David...
The Haisbro' Lightvessel
Cromer, Norfolk. At 8.23 on the morn- ing of the 16th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a vessel had collided with the Haisbro' lightvessel, which was sinking. At 8.32, when the No. 1 life- boat...
Notes of the Quarter
1964 WAS a record year with more launches by rescue craft of the R.N.L.I. than ever before. In 1965 a similar pattern seems to be developing. In two of the three months covered by this edition of THE LIFE-BOAT records were again established....
Category: Articles
The Morecambe Bay Lightvessel
FATHER WAS ILL Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 2.30 p.m.
on 13th April, 1964, the superintendent of the Trinity House depot at Holyhead informed the honorary secretary that the father of one of the crew members of the Morecambe...
The Lizard - West Division
The Lizard is the Southernmost point of the British mainland, a bold promontory that juts out to form a gatepost to the English Channel.
The station's Tyne class lifeboat is housed in Kilcobben Bay - the boathouse with... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Boat Roustabout
JAN. 3RD. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
During the morning the sailing boat Roustabout, of Lowestoft, left harbour with a crew of four. At 11.30 A.M. the life-boat coxswain, who had gone to the coastguard lookout, saw the boat...
The Italin Brig Sori
Earlier in the year, on the 7th January, the Kingsdowne and North Deal Life- boats had also been enabled to render somewhat similar service to the Italian brig Sori, except that in this instance the vessel, laden with linseed, was found on...
The Blackwater Lightvessel
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—On the 28th of February, 1954, the Com- missioners of Irish Lights asked if the life-boat would land a sick man from the Blackwater lightvessel. The Com- missioners had no boat available, and at 4.15 in the...