LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Trials for Two
An investigation, by instrument and direct observation, into hull sea-keeping ability at high speed in rough water and the resultant fatigue experienced by man and machinery 50' Thames class prototype and 52' Arun Mk, II off...
Category: Articles
A Lobster Creel Boat
Fishing vessel skipper rescues stranded man in severe conditions The rescue of a fellow fisherman stranded on an island in Storm Force winds earned Scalloway fisherman George Williamson an RNLI Bronze medal for Gallantry. The three members...
Bagatelle
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About 8.45 on the evening of the 6th of August, 1955, a fisherman came in from sea in his fishing boat and brought ashore a woman from the yacht Bagatelle, of Ipswich. She stated that the yacht had run ashore on...
Tarbeck
Eastbourne, Sussex. At ten minutes after midnight on the morning of the 9th of August, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a collision had occurred near the RoyalSovereign lightvessel and that one of the ships involved, the...
Leila
CAUGHT IN HERRING NET Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 10.58 a.m. on nth October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was burning a red flare a mile and a half from Lowestoft coastguard lookout. There was a fresh...
Daniel Norman
Daniel Norman was accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum for the rescue of a girl swept into the sea off Watchet on September 12, 1981; the service was reported in the spring 1982 issue of THE LIFEBOAT. After the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Various Vessels (1)
Southend-on-Sea and Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—Beginning on the evening of the 31st of January, 1953, floods inun- dated areas in the east of England to an extent unknown in this country in living memory. The Southend-on- Sea life-boat was...
Life-Boat for Italy Under Construction
The first two life-boats for the Italian life-boat service, which is about to be formed, will both be of the 52-foot Barnett type. They are being built by Groves and Guttridge at Cowes.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Daisy
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 12.12 on the afternoon of the 8th of March, 1959, the coast- guard told the honorary secretary that a yacht was in difficulties to the east of the harbour entrance. Five minutes later the life-boat...
Piciess
Damage limitation Caught out by severe weather that had not been forecast, the yacht Piciess had broken mast and sail and had engine failure. The 6.5m yacht and its crew of two, were at the mercy of the seas, 5 miles east of Lymington...