LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shantico (1)
Dangerously dehydrated On 25 April 2006, three lifeboats worked together to save a 14m yacht and her crew sinking off Ardlamont Point, Loch Fyne.
Launching at I.OSpmTighnabruaich's B class Alec and Maimie Preston was...
The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra-buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
An Indian Applicant
THE Institution has had a letter from a consulting engineer in Travancore- Cochin, India, asking to be told how he "can get selected as a life-boatman in the Royal National Life-boat Insti- tution in England." He is, he says, a ...
Category: Correspondence
Fishing Vessels
On the 25th November a heavy gale of wind from E.S.E. sprang up in the morning, causing a very heavy sea. At about 10 o'clock eight Scotch fishingvessels, on their way from Yarmouth fishing-grounds to Scotland, were seen running for...
Gustava
BALLYCOTTON, IRELAND. — At about 5 P.M. on the 21st October, the barque Gustava,, of Laurvig, Norway, bound from Cardiff to the Baltic via Cork, with coal, was seen standing in for Ballycotton Sound. A pilot went off to her in a whaleboat,...
Wellesley
The fishing smack Wellesley, of Scarborough, while making for the harbour at dead low-water, during a gale of wind from the S.E. and a heavy sea, at 7.30 P.M., on the 19th March, took the ground outside the pier and drove on to the beach.<...
Hereward
EAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—At 9 A.M. on the 27th September a mounted messenger brought information that a dismasted vessel was showing signals of distress about a mile from the shore. The Lifeboat Two Sisters was promptly launched and proceeded to...
Tam-o'-Shanter
FOWEY.—At about 12.30 A.M., on the 18th November, a flare-up light was shown by the schooner Tam-o'-Shanter, of Goole, bound from Dartmouth for Par in ballast, which was drifting before a heavy E. gale in the direction, of the...
James Kenway
HOLYHEAD. — It having been reported that a ship was ashore in Church' Bay, the Thomas Fidden Life-boat was launched at 1 P.M. on the 9th of January, and taken in tow by a steam-tug. On reaching the vessel, which proved to be the barque...
Caroline
LOWESTOFT.—At about 1.30 P.M. on the 3rd of March, the brigantine Caroline, of Faversham, bound from London for the Tyne, with a cargo of burnt ore, and carrying a crew of seven men, was seen to part from her cable in the roadstead, and in...