LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Naming Ceremonies
St Ives - Mersey class The Princess Royal (Civil Service No. 41) The importance of the naming ceremony for St Ives' Mersey class lifeboat The Princess Royal (Civil Service No 41) was recognised by the weather, which slipped in a warm,...
Category: Inaugurations
Stranded in a storm
When a trawler hit propeller problems in force 9 winds and high seas, it took the skill and bravery of two lifeboat crews to bring the fishermen back to safety
On the belts, in the pockets and...
Category: Articles
Ceremonies
The weather forecast promised heavy rain and strong winds - and how accurate it was! The guests assembled at the naming ceremony of the Trent class lifeboat Esme Anderson at Ramsgate on 25 October 1994 braced themselves for all that the...
Category: Inaugurations
Super-Quality of Life-Boats
CRITICISMS have been expressed in recent years as to the great cost of the construction of the Institution's Life- boats. It would seem, from these, criticisms, that the public do not fully: understand either the nature of Life-boat{...
Category: Articles
Epimachus, of Amsterdam
On the 18th De- cember, the Dutch galliot EpimacTws, of Amsterdam, was seen to be running for the shore, with a flag of distress up, 4 miles north of Berwick-on-Tweed. The life-boat at that place was at once launched, and pro- ceeding to her...
Fishing Boats (1)
ABBROATH.—Several fishing-boats having been overtaken by a strong gale from the S.S.E., and a very heavy sea, on the 30th May, the People's Journal No. 2 Lifeboat was launched at 2.45 A.M., pulled out to the bar, and remained there in...
Three Brothers
CEMLYN, ANGLESEY.—At about 9 A M on the 21st March, during a gale from the N.W., the flat Three Brothers, of Chester, which was riding at anchor in Cemlyn Bay, exhibited a signal of distress. TheGood Shepherd Life-boat at once proceeded to...
Amity
On the 1st January last the Life-boat Augusta, stationed at this headland, rendered good service to the schooner Amity, of Beaumauris, which, while on a voyage from Bangor to Swansea, became embayed in a dangerous position during thick...
Fishing Boats
CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. — A strong sea having risen with a dense fog on the 10th of May, the Life-boat Cooperator No. 1 was launched at about 8.30 A.M. to the assistance of three fishingboats whose return was rendered...
A Vessel
St. Ives, Cornwall.—23rd January, 1939. The motor life-boat put out to an unknown vessel, but capsized with the loss of seven of her crew of eight.— Rewards: Bronze medals and £88 2s.
(A full account of this life-boat...