LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Book Reviews
• Lifeboats of the World by E. W.
Middleton (Blandford Press £3.75) is the most comprehensive study yet made of the way in which different countries organise their lifeboat services. The author examines the services in...
Category: Articles
Centenaries of Three Life-Boat Stations
THREE life-boat stations, those at Camp- beltown, Llandudno and Selsey, all celebrated this year the hundredth anni- versary of their foundation.
The Campbeltown station was founded in the first instance largely be- cause...
Category: Articles
Niblick
High speed response helps mine-damaged trawler to safetyThe fast response time of the high-speed Atlantic 21 was put to good use at Harwich last October when the honorary secretary of the station decided to make use of the rigid inflatable...
Your Letters
The casualty's view of a rescue ... and thanks to the crew Having read the discussion 'Men behind the medals' in the Autumn issue of The Lifeboat, I wanted to comment on some of the points as seen through the eyes of a...
Category: Correspondence
Favorite and Two Brothers
PADSTOW.—The Albert Edward Lifeboat put off during a strong gale from the N.W., arid a very heavy sea, and with great difficulty rescued the crew, consist- ing of four men, from the schooner Favorite, of Quimper, which had lost her sails and...
Blanche Moore, of Liverpool
On the 26th May, the Gertrude life-boat on this station put off, and succeeded in rescuing the whole of the crew of 36 men, belonging to the ship Blanche Moore, of Liverpool, which was totally wrecked during a strong wind and squally weather...
Adelaide ,of Malahide
The Life-boat on this station went out on the 31stOctober, during a fresh gale from the E., and saved the crew of 5 men of the schooner Adelaide, of Malahide,...
Veritas
On the previous day the Kingsdowne Life-boat had gone out to the Goodwin Sands, in reply to signals of distress, and had found the barque Veritas ashore there. On account of the state of the weather, the shore boats that had gone off to her...
Admiral Nelson, of Beaumaris
NEW BRIGHTON. — Information was brought to the Life-boat Station at 9.45 P.M. on the 17th May, that a vessel had beaten over the Brazil Bank and had sunk in the Kock Channel. The wind was blowing from the W.S.W. at the time; the weather was...
Florence Mary
A fishing-dandy was seen, daring a break in a thick fog at 10 A.M. on the 16th June, stranded on the North Scroby Sand. A strong breeze was blowing at the time from the 8., and there was a rough sea. The No. 2 Life-boat Godsend proceeded to...