LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Brita
At 3.23 a.m. on 2ist August, 1966, red flares were reported to the south of Dungeness. The life-boat Mabel E.
Holland was launched at 3.40 in a light easterly wind and a slight sea. It was one and a half hours after high...
Niki
When an unknown vessel reported sighting the masts of a sinking ship near the South Varne buoy on 27th February, 1971, the Dungeness life-boat was unable to launch immediately owing to low water and spring tides. The Dover life-boat Faithful...
Up Spirits
Weather deteriorated ON THE EVENING of Wednesday, September 8, 1976, the yacht Up Spirits anchored in New Quay Bay. Her owner and one member of the crew remained on board while the other slept ashore.
During the night the...
Wrecked at the Lizard
The Clan Malcolm, of Glasgow, a 6000-ton steamer with a crew of 75, which went ashore in a dense fog. (See page 568.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Yvonne, of Cardiff
MAY 4TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 7.55 in the evening the coastguard reported a small boat drifting two miles north of St. David’s Head. A strong northeasterly breeze was blowing and the sea was rough. The motor...
A Coxswain's First Service
ON the morning of 10th October, 1935, the barge British Oak, of Roches- ter, was running for Ramsgate. She was bound from Goole to Hayling Island, with a crew of two men and a cargo of coal, and had been wind-bound off Deal for several days....
Category: Services
Rnli Kensington Branch
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The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt 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
Cathrina, of Riga
During the night of the 25th September, the schooner Oathrina, of Biga, stranded on the Aber- tay Banks, which lie to the eastward of the entrance to the River Tay. At 4 A.M. her signals of distress were observed from the shore. It was then...