LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Triharda
Crew saved after long and difficult service to capsized trimaran Yarmouth's Arun Joy and John Wade was involved in a service on 11 December 1993 which made headlines in the national press. The lifeboat had spent nearly five hours at sea ...
Vertical take off
The volunteers aboard an inshore lifeboat faced nearly overwhelming conditions one day last March …
The shipping and inshore waters forecast at 5.20am warned of the impending...
Category: Articles
A Fisherman's Appeal
As reported in the " Services of the Life-boats," the motor life-boat at Stornoway, on the Island of Lewis, in the Hebrides, was called out shortly before midnight on 14th February, to the help of two fishing boats off Tolsta Head,...
Category: Poetry
Mountbatten of Burma
ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET the Earl Mountbatten of Burma, who was killed in his motor yacht while on holiday last August, will be remembered, as is his wife, the Countess Mountbatten, as a very good friend of the lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Fertile
Aith and Lerwick, Shetlands; and Stronsay, Orkneys. At 5.28 p.m. on Tuesday, i5th June, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Lerwick life-boat station that a 46-foot motor fishing vessel bound for Lerwick from Kirkwall...
Melinda Muriel (2)
Overturned fishing vessel AN EIGHTEEN FOOT fishing vessel, Melinda Muriel, had put out to sea from Skinningrove, Cleveland, with fourpeople on board on the morning of Tuesday July 29, 1986. The wind was north westerly and there were squally...
Looking at Lifeboats
With the traditional double-ended lifeboat now replaced by fast lifeboats at every one of the Institution's stations RNLI Naval Architect Keith Thatcher takes a look at two of the classes which dominated the Institution's...
Category: Articles
Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT if, held at the London Tavern on Thursday the 26th day of March, 1874, His Grace The DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., B.O.L., President of the Institution, in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part 1
KNOWLEDGE OF SHIPS AND THE SEA, of design and engineering brought to bear, with imagination, on the problems posed in the reconciling of requirements with limitations; calculations; drawings —of profile, section and plan—building up on flat...
Category: Articles
Glorfindel II
Yacht crew landed ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1976, at 1720 Eyemouth Coastguard informed the deputy launching authority of St Abbs ILB station that the yacht Glorfindel II, moored in St Abbs outer harbour, was in danger of being swamped. A...